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Worst UI ever?

I downloaded and installed this just so that I could believe what I had seen, and yes. it was very real.
I couldn't stop looking at it. It was like watching an accident. You just can't look awaym no matter how horrible it is.
Now, here's the question:
If you didn't know what the name of the program was, how long would it take you to figure out that is is actually a file manager? with two panes on left and right? It took me a few minutes just to get over the visual shock.
Published Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:25 AM by RoyOsherove
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:10 PM by denny

# re: Worst UI ever?

Unreal..... I kept looking at the web site to see if it was made up like an april fools prank.

and I used to wonder at some of the DOS and CP/M shells...
LU and such....
Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:34 AM by TrackBack

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Thursday, June 03, 2004 5:16 AM by Leon

# re: Worst UI ever?

Here is a great site with some more examples of good and bad interfaces:
http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/index-1.htm