turn out those endless password requirements annoy their inventor , too .
1.Anna Jarvisregretted inventing Mother’s Dayso much that she ended up lobbying against it.
2.Ethan Zuckermanstraight-up apologisedfor inventing the pop-up ad.
3.Dong Nguyenannounced the endof his game Flappy Bird via Tweet (bird pun likely accidental), saying, “I cannot take this anymore.”
4.Robert Propsthated the adaptation of office cubicles he inventedas a part of his Action Office model, calling the mass introduction of them to the workplace a “monolithic insanity.”
5.Vincent Connare, who invented Comic Sans, “sympathises with the world-wide movement to ban it,“The Wall Street Journalwrites.
6.Wally Conronreally regrets creating the labradoodlein the ’80s, as many of themhave health issues.
7.Emoticon inventor Scott E. Falman feels :( about inventing the :).
8.John Sylvain, who invented the K-cup coffee pod in the ’90s, toldThe Atlantic, “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
9.Looking back, Sir Tim Berners Lee wishes he hadn’t put the // at the start of every web address.
10.Victor Gruen, the inventor of the shopping mall,hated what his creation became.
11.The Raleigh Chopper was basically BMX before BMX came to be — but its inventor, Tom Karen,wasn’t much of a fan.
12.Kamran Loghman really regrets how his invention (pepper spray) has been used.
13.Philo Farnsworthinvented some of the tech that would make TV possiblewhen he was just 14 — and lived to regret it, saying he’d invented a “most painful” machine when contestants ofI’ve Got a Secrettried to guess his identity.
14.Hate how hard it is to create a strong password? So doesBill Burr(not the comedian — theinventor of the rulesthat make it so tricky).
15.John Larson doesn’t standby the lie detector, which he co-invented.
16.Robert Watson-Watt, who invented radar, livedto personally regrethis own invention.
