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Re:Tools never die ... never by ladon86 on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:44PM (#2167287)
OK guys, this smells like a challenge. Can anyone think of a tool which has been made extinct?
Re:Tools never die ... never by simonsarris on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @06:23PM (#2167969)
There are tons. Think of all the things that humankind used to assume worked and now consider completely silly, like divining rods, or some tools related to alchemy such as the aludel. Several awful medical devices from ancient times up to the middle ages are also gone. Many of these didn't evolve. They weren't refined. They were awful ideas and simply died.

Of course divining rods and crystal balls and the like might still have the function of duping "tools"

Re:Tools never die ... never by Semiapies on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:04PM (#2168140)
Thanks to New Agers and such, devices like divining rods are still made and sold.
Re:Tools never die ... never by jasonlotito on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:51PM (#2167326)
http://bit.ly/evkm84

At least until John Hammond gets his wish.

Re:Tools never die ... never by Charuru on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:51PM (#2167327)
I wrote an IDE the other day that nobody uses. Does that count?
Re:Tools never die ... never by sammcd on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @04:18PM (#2167445)
Not sure why people are voting you down. I've written quite a few tools for coding that have gone unused, and its exactly where my mind went too.
Re:Tools never die ... never by dtc on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:58AM (#2169706)
Your specific implementation of an IDE might be dead. But the concept of an IDE and the use of IDEs lives on.