15 Lamest Technology Mascots

Mascot is something to help one remembers a brand but if one chooses a wrong mascot it could backfire though. Wired.com certainly did some good research in this compilation. Here’s 15 Most Lamest Technology Mascot ever. Full content after jump.

1. Microsoft Office: Clippy, the animated paper clip

2. Linux: Tux the penguin

3. Business Software Alliance: The Ferret

4. Apple: Clarus the Dogcow

5. MacOS: Hexley

6. Adobe: The Creative Suite Jester

7. Sun Microsystem: Duke the ambassador of Java

8. AskJeeves.com: Jeeves

9. IBM: The VM Bear

10. Microsoft: OS-TAN

11. Mozilla: The Gozilla?

12. Bell Labs: Glenda

13. Gentoo: Larry the Cow

14. Nullsoft Winamp: Mike the Llama

15. Wikipedia: Wikipede

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Friedbeef April 26th, 2007

I kinda like Jeeves and the penguin….
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cely April 26th, 2007

i like the peguin also..

I really never thought of how ‘lame’ were these mascots.. haha
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hongkiat April 26th, 2007

I too like Tux, but the thing that irritates me the most is the Microsoft Clippy. Annoying.
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Mo April 27th, 2007

yeah Clippy is annoying…
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Kenny Lee April 27th, 2007

MS never used OS Tan!! Check wiki for info.
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endroo G April 30th, 2007

It was Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux, who wanted a penguin to be a mascot of Linux. He likes penguin.

Ah, besides the “paper clip” is there anything you can find in an office worthwhile to be associated with MS Office? At least its better than the dog.
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retsnom March 17th, 2009

Uh, dude. OS-tans aren’t official MS mascots, get your facts straight. In fact, there are OS-tans for almost every OS out there, hence the part of the name “OS”.
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