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DOSSIER, TIMELINE

10 Tech Products That Failed Spectacularly

A collection of six retro-style Polaroid photographs of consumer electronics, arranged in a circle on a dark wood table. The devices include an Apple Newton MessagePad, Google Glass, Amazon Fire Phone, modern Apple iPhone and Watch on a charging mat, a Microsoft Zune, and a BlackBerry Q10. The arrangement evokes a nostalgic, museum-like gallery.

Tech history is littered with ambitious gadgets that promised to redefine our world but crashed into oblivion due to hubris, bad timing, or plain bad ideas. These 10 flops from giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon burned billions and became…

Glitchmaster
March 30, 2026
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The Great Fear: The 5 Minutes the World Waited for the Y2K Bug to End It All

A collage of 1999 magazine and newspaper covers about the Y2K computer bug, featuring headlines like "THE END OF THE WORLD !?!" from Time, "THE DAY THE WORLD CRASHES" from Newsweek, and apocalyptic warnings like "JANUARY 1, 2000 IS THIS THE END?", with a blurred center for text overlay.

It sounds ridiculous today, the idea that civilization teetered on collapse because computers couldn’t count past “99.” But rewind to New Year’s Eve 1999, and the Y2K bug gripped the planet in unprecedented dread. For those five tense minutes around midnight, billions…