Worst Application... Ever?

I thought programs like this died out in the 90s

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/18/3d-mailbox-worst-app-ever/

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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the most pointless application ever developed.


I always thought that America Online.......
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And I quote; "Featuring INCREDIBLE 3D graphics".

LMAO. That's got to one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. It's like this Sims meets Outlook Express or something. Beyond weird.
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I always thought that America Online.......


Same here!
How about AOL & 3D Mailbox, now were cooking with gas!
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One word : babya


oooww......forgot about that one

The difference would be AOL was packaged with damn near every computer sold for several years whereas Babya was just some wacko's program.
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Pointless is the appropriate word indeed . I'm wondering how huge a resources-hog this thing is ? Imagine having that thing running pretty much constantly in the background ( it's like having sims 2 running all the time ,regardless of what you're doing ) ? Imagine using this on an average PC with Vista on it ( in itself not exactly a "slim " OS ) ?

Anyone have an insight on how much memory and CPU-cycles this monstrosity uses ?

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Beyond being pointless, it's obviously NSFW.

After all, do you really want your office email to lose its bikini when it dives?
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Looks like an excuse for boobies   

Sign me up!   
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Looks like an excuse for boobies


Did someone say boobies?   
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All I saw was a Second Life version of things going on at the beach. I didn't get one idea of what this application actually does. So if someone sends me an email asking how I'm doing, etc I'm going to get girls in bikinis?
I just don't get it.

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One word : babya

Beats all-comers to the title of 'Worst'....

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Wow! This guy must have bean incredibly bored to come of with this application. gees it's just cheese. Nothing wrong with that but why would I want to read 3D email when it would take me less time to read regular email. Now there is two type of email 3D and regular.
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why would I want to read 3D email when it would take me less time to read regular email


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.
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I can solidly confirm, andrew is correct. babya system is the worst application ever.
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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
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Well, Babya followed by AOL and T-Online Software and of course Windows ME for worst OS ever.

TEDDY !
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My personal worst all time software... Drum roll please..... VISTA!

(someone had to say it)   
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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)
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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?
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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.
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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?