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It has happened to all of us.  We think our technology should be acting one way but the tech itself seems to have different thoughts.  We think we're being perfectly clear in our requests but the computer / cell phone / XBox / what-have-you is entirely uninterested in performing even the most mundane tasks.  Some people shrug it off and move on to do something else thinking that giving the technology a chance to rest will help.  Other people, well...just take a look at these videos and see how some people react when faced with a stubborn computer.

That water and electronics don't mix goes without saying. Sometimes however, life has a way of making bad things happen in the worst ways possible, and somewhere down the line it's possible to find yourself with a computer that has met a very wet end. When that computer has critical files on it, such a bad turn of events can turn disastrous.

In today’s market, it’s difficult to create an internet service that doesn’t already exist in some form. While some companies and ecommerce sites are extremely lucky and succeed (Amazon.com being a leader in becoming popular extremely fast), there have been plenty of promising sites that ended up either disastrous, bankrupt, or both.

Here is a list of five of such sites, and what caused their demises:

1. Webvan – Online Grocery Service (1999-2001)

Losing valuable files on a computer is one of those things that people tend to shrug off, thinking “It won’t happen to me.” Yet, according to a 2010 survey of Symantec, 51 percent of small to medium businesses in the country are not prepared for data loss disasters. Although some data loss is the fault of technology, human error can also be a major problem.