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I thought programs like this died out in the 90s
Published on July 18, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Sometimes you wonder what a company is smoking when it comes time to sit down and dream up a new application and they come up with 3D Mailbox, quite possibly the worst application ever conceived and developed.

Think of it as a low-quality 3D game from the late 1990s, only it's all about reading and sorting your email.  Want to get rid of spam?  Feed it to a shark.  Want to read a message?  Your avatar will lounge by the poolside in a bikini while you sort through your latest issue of the 3D Art Gone Wrong electronic newsletter.  Does the concept sound incredibly stupid?  Well, according to TechCrunch, The Times Online and the Guardian say it's just as ridiculously dumb as it sounds.

Hit the link below for a wonderfully cheesy promo video for possibly the most pointless application ever developed.


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on Jul 19, 2007
From www.techcrunch.com
# sandl

July 18th, 2007 at 7:50 am

So if my mom emails me, it will show up as a half naked, hot blond? uugh… no, thanks


well what i can say more
on Jul 19, 2007
Well, Babya followed by AOL and T-Online Software and of course Windows ME for worst OS ever.

TEDDY !
on Jul 19, 2007
My personal worst all time software... Drum roll please..... VISTA!

(someone had to say it)   
on Jul 19, 2007
My personal worst all time software... Drum roll please..... VISTA!


Ahem.....I'll have you know that I quite like Vista and enjoy using it as my primary OS, so there.


(someone had to say it)


No they didn't....but sadly for you, you did....being I recognise that brow-beating WWF Female Intercontinental Champion ex-girlfriend of yours from that other thread.....(insert evil laugh here)
on Jul 19, 2007
Umm, cos it'd make things considerably more interesting if people are sending attachments with girls in skimpy bikinis....maybe it's not so silly after all.


Do emails with large attachments produce avatars with large enhancements?
on Jul 19, 2007
Do emails with large attachments produce avatars with large enhancements?


Dunno....boob and penis enlargements/enhancements are usually the domain of spam, and I'm not sure if the 3D effect would apply to the junk mail box.
on Jul 20, 2007
Oh, you laughed at MS Bob. Come on, you know you did. Laugh at this, too.

UI designers fall for these pie-in-the-sky abstract concepts because the companies they work for tell them the same things and make the same frustrating requests as do all tech companies. Bob was serious, this was serious, SpaceTime is serious, Apple claims to be serious... The metaphor culture is catching, and people are becoming more and more aware of how queer it sounds when radio ads tell them to "log on to" a website, and more and more people are becoming savvy enough to be clear in their protestation of, say, a new OS stripping away their locus of control. The relentless street-preaching Web 2.0 crowd won't die and people are dying to do (by industry prognosticators, clueless a-holes to a man) really weird stuff with their like SL and Kaneva and turning weblog sites on their heads hacking out more than mere identities... It's no wonder the people whose charge it is to design the visual infrastructure resort to crap like this, I bet it even passed internal UA and QC schemes. There's a paper mockup of this beast somewhere in a rubbish bin where it belongs, and people are still downloading screensavers. For their cellular telephones. What, me worry?
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