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'Tis the Season for FAIL: A Year in Tech Disasters

by Warren Riddle on December 24, 2009 at 05:00 PM

If you love lists and rankings, then December definitely represents the pinnacle of the year. As the Advent calendar's panels steadily open, and the menorah's candles incrementally inflame, every publication, it seems, reveals its own take on the closing year's most notable achievements. Sometimes those celebratory 'Best of (fill in the blank)' lists grow tedious and overly enthusiastic, though. So, if you're sick of all that joy and celebration, and are instead hoping to ridicule 2009's most awe-inspiring failures, then Wired has your fix.

The site has just released its Vaporware 2009 list, which seeks to crown the year's most blatantly unfulfilled promise. Readers submitted their entries, which "had to have been promised for this year." Still, the editors allowed "anything that ended up delayed, derailed or otherwise absent." We don't want to prematurely spoil the holiday surprise, but some well-known entries include the U.S. version of the music-streaming service Spotify and the six-year-old, work-in-progress video game 'Black Mesa.' So, toss aside all that sickly sweet cheer and unwrap this huge package of festive FAIL. [From: Wired]

Tags: black mesa, BlackMesa, endofyear, funny, list, lists, spotify, vaporware, wired, wired magazine, WiredMagazine

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