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It gave us Comic Sans, which had a notable impact on culture. I wouldn't call that a flop.
by ok123456 2y ago
It gave us Comic Sans, which had a notable impact on culture. I wouldn't call that a flop.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoIt also gave us the world’s greatest example of poorly thought through security practices. You can set a password on your Bob account. If you fail to enter the right password three times in a row, Microsoft Bob lets you reset the password, no further questions.
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- notnaut 2y agoWhat?? What was the point, even?
- tiahura 2y agoSo you knew your kids had been doing something they shouldn't.
- wongarsu 2y agoAnyone can get in, but nobody can get in without leaving evidence behind.
- chgs 2y agoTo get people used to passwords
- notnaut 2y agoThis seems most likely, I guess? A username without a password would suit for leaving a trace?
- ok123456 2y agoIt was meant to personalize settings on the family computer, not be Orange Book compliant.
- p_ing 2y agoIt was a shell atop of Windows 3.x on a FAT16-formatted drive. Like 9x, the user account was only for personalization, not security.
- duskwuff 2y agoComic Sans was from Microsoft Comic Chat [1], which was a separate product from Bob. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
- breadwinner 2y agoUnlikely. Comic Chat project was not a high-budget project that could design its own font. Bob on the the other hand was, and according to Wikipedia did fund the development of Comic Sans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans
- gazchop 2y agoThe funeral director at my father’s funeral used comic sans for everything. A flop no but used hilariously for a things it shouldn’t be. One of the most divisive typefaces ever. I like it.
- PeterHolzwarth 2y agoI believe it's a fairly popular font with dyslexics as well.
- alexjplant 2y agoMy mother was an early childhood teacher for decades and used it in everything she printed for her classes. I asked her why and she said it bore the closest resemblance to proper block print out of all the fonts available. I went through several bouts of unnecessary glyph modifications in my own handwriting when I was a kid because I thought various fonts looked cool so maybe there's something to it. Personally I don't get the outrage. In my opinion the likes of Bradley Hand ITC and Papyrus are abused more often but nobody's ever accused me of having good taste ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Loughla 2y agoThat's hilariously bad. Our sweet old lady office manager 2 jobs ago used comic sans for every announcement. Babies and new employees and that sort of thing it was fine. But using it for death notices of employees family members, with frowny face emojis, was a bit much. She was so sweet, but so very very oblivious.