# Stunningly pathetic reasons to use a product proferred by ads.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunningly-pathetic-reasons-to-use-a-product-proferred-by-ads/462475 "2008-09-07T11:44:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunningly-pathetic-reasons-to-use-a-product-proferred-by-ads/462475/81 "2008-09-27T15:09:58Z")

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> [@Student\_Driver](#):
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> For whatever reason, a lot of companies hit on advertising their biorhythm-computing abilities. Biorhythms are interesting as a simple programming exercise (mathematically simple, fits into little memory), but as killer apps?

I remember a lot of ads in Byte magazine in the early 1980s showing Apples, TRS-80s and CPM machines with a biorhythm chart displayed on the screen.

Also, for some reason recipe storage was also considered a killer app, as if someone would use a $3000 computer in the kitchen for displaying recipes, as opposed to a $10 cookbook or a $2 box of 3x5 cards.

EDIT: beaten by **dropzone**.

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