Cut and Obscure Tech Content

This account is dedicated to sharing obscure facts and cut/scrapped content from tech products! Inspired by @CutVideoGame.

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@pussydynamic It's not my fault, everytime I try to make a post my whole screen fades away into dust and sand

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In the early days of Mac OS X, there was an issue where people would run out of RAM and crash their system. Instead of optimizing the OS, they replaced the crash with a sand effect that closed all their programs, and dubbed it "The Sands of Egypt" feature.

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2 pixels are missing from the Windows XP start menu in one specific update from '02.

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Re-enabled function from a Windows XP beta. There was a slight chance that whenever you went onto the shutdown menu, a reference to the "Family Guy" gag called Sneakers O'Toole would play.

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Chats may or may not be released under a .pdf file in the future. Identities will be kept anonymous.

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🎉Wow, 5,000 followers!
For a limited time, we are going to be offering tech support help through the X Direct Message feature!
Give us a call, won't you?

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In Windows Vista build 5329, Microsoft added a worm to the taskbar.

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In 2004, Microsoft tried adding an alternative to screensavers which would blare a loud noise, which was supposed to "increase time users spent using Microsoft Windows".
This quickly fell through in testing.

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In 2004, Google tried to automate Google Doodles. However, a font rendering bug made the default logo lowercase for around 3 hours.

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The "Hall of Tortured Souls" is a hidden 3D easter egg in Microsoft Excel 95. Accessed by a specific sequence in Excel 95, it features a 3D gallery displaying the names and faces of the software's developers.

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There was never an Office assistant in Microsoft Office.

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You used to be able to dial and contact the police by pressing the 911 button on specific versions of Windows 98's channel bar.

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Only screenshot of mobile (dot) x (dot) com, only available for a singular day.

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In Microsoft InkBall, there was a debug option to select the Eraser mode, which would erase the map where the user was holding left click on the mouse, it was pretty obvious why it was removed, as the ball could get out of the game, and closing it is the only way to fix it.

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Image from: technologynews (dot) com, a now defunct news site about technology.

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In 2011, Bill Gates was caught chewing on his USB, then he dropped it and lost it.

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Intel once proposed a SATA video output on motherboards, so you could watch your disk’s bytes directly on a monitor. Here's a working prototype!

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Did you know? @MyPayIndia used to have a gaming section where you could play a various assortment of games to earn more money, albeit it was slower than the traditional method. This phased out once people began hacking in them.

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On some versions of Wyse 700 drivers for Windows 3.1, it was possible to see a menu option in the Program Manager with the text "F̲UCK YOU". Not many copies of the drivers with this menu option have remained and it was lost until very recently.

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Starting today, the ants will have been unleashed on Windows 7.