Microsoft Bob was an abomination

[TEH BABA]

http://www.howden.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Bob

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Well, those were the windows 3.x days. Hell with that OS if you wanted to get on the web like a civilized person, you'd have to download a copy of Trumpet Winsock from someplace, and then FTP yourself some Mosaic! Of course there wasn't lots on the net then, and you'd really find what you wanted using Gopher... but I digress.

Like many things, Bob was one of those ideas that look good... right up to the point you implement it.

AG

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Bob lives on, as the little search assistant dog. No Microsoft product ever dies completely.

 

[USS KG5]

I wonder if anyone still has a working box running Bob? It is possible some people really like it I suppose...

 

[anais]

Well there's still Microsoft Anna, the text to speech girl.

*You have selected Microsoft Anna as the computer's default voice.*

Maybe she knows where Bob went.

 

[ATimson]

Well, those were the windows 3.x days. Hell with that OS if you wanted to get on the web like a civilized person, you'd have to download a copy of Trumpet Winsock from someplace, and then FTP yourself some Mosaic!

Windows 95, actually; if you sprang for the Microsoft Plus! pack, though, you'd get yourself IE.