PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

Ant writes "PC World picks the 50 best tech products of all time. Apple holds down seven places in the list, Microsoft two, and open source software (Red Hat Linux) one. The top five, according to PC World, are: Netscape Navigator (1994), Apple II (1977), TiVo HDR110 (1999), Napster (1999), and Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983).

50 best, 50 worst... ho, hum

[chebucto]

What I want to see is a list of the 50 middle tech products of all time. Which are the most mediocre? Which products excel at mediocrity? Inquiring minds want to know!

Re:Commodore C64

[MosesJones]

Help me out here, is it 99.99% or 99.999% of all the developers on the planet?

Cue:Cat

[kerouacsgp]

What no CueCat?
http://cuecat.com/ [cuecat.com]

Re:50 best, 50 worst... ho, hum

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Battery powered keyboard vacuum cleaners.
2. Screen filters.
3. Mouse Mats.
4. Mechanical Mice.
5. Winmodems.
6. Shadowing System RAM for video cards.
7. Atari STe having a mouse port underneath the keyboard.
8. My first beige PC.

Re:That is not the outcome !

[MarkByers]

> So if I click on the 'vote' link in the article I can still vote but it won't infuence the outcome?

Yeah, that's how voting works these days. How do you think Bush won?

Re:RealSound? Covox?

[turing_m]

"Looks like he... hit the tree Jim!"

Ah, memories.

Re:Bad list, forgot all of the most important tech

[ideonode]

You know, if we're talking about digital technology, then I reckon that the best digital technology of all time would be opposable thumbs.

Re:mmmh

[hswerdfe]

metrics? you mean the editors didn't sit around a table saying, "Hey remember my old NES, that was cool"..."It needs to go in."

Re:50 Best Tech Products of All Time

[Glowing Fish]

Sure, I think "The Wheel" and "The Inclined Plane" are great technically, but marketing never found a way to really get their brand loyalty started in the vital 18-24 demographic.

Where's the wheel?

[Grebekel]

Any "Best tech of all time" list that does not list the wheel is bogus. What would I do if my chair didn't have 5 sets of wheels on it? Walk? As if...

Microsoft bashing is de rigeur for slashdot.,.

[way2trivial]

I'm sick and tired of all the anti-microsoft slant to slashdot..
continually minimizing microsofts effort to the world of personal computing...

Microsoft did not have TWO, they had at least 4 of the above.
Microsoft deserves credit for #36 and #24 as they were directly responsible for bringing them about.

Re:Commodore C64

[tbone1]

Punch card reader? You were lucky. I had to put my punch card into a jacquard loom and then decipher the stitching pattern to run my program.

the beginning of time

[rainmayun]

I thought time began on January 1st, 1970?

Re:RealSound? Covox?

[elgatozorbas]

Ooohhh. Can't be too happy 'bout that one!