Let's not forget ATRAC when talking about dead formats. Mini disc would have been great and they could have had the ipod market if all of their portable music devices didn't insist on using that horrible horrible format when portable digital music started taking off.

I'm surprised their crap design decisions didn't make the list. I remember a time when I'd see 3 or 4 of those come across my work bench at the store I worked in during their heyday. Up until this point I think I had almost purged the experience from my mind, but if I recall correctly quite a few machines would completely stop functioning if the modem died, was removed, or replaced. Generally it had something to do with swapping a jumper to reconfigure a COM port. Combined with other horrible "features" of those machines it's hard to believe they were left off the list. Perhaps the article writers were sparing us from painul memories.....

In your view the OP's experiment isn't complete until he gets to whack you with a stick. That should be worth a few million.