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PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

Posted by kdawson on from the time-starts-in-1977 dept.

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).

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  1. 50 best, 50 worst... ho, hum by chebucto · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:50 best, 50 worst... ho, hum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      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.

  2. Re:Commodore C64 by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Cue:Cat by kerouacsgp · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  4. Re:That is not the outcome ! by MarkByers · · Score: 1, Funny

    > 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?

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  5. Re:RealSound? Covox? by turing_m · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Ah, memories.

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  6. Re:Bad list, forgot all of the most important tech by ideonode · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:mmmh by hswerdfe · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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  8. Re:50 Best Tech Products of All Time by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  9. Where's the wheel? by Grebekel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  10. Microsoft bashing is de rigeur for slashdot.,. by way2trivial · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  11. Re:Commodore C64 by tbone1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.

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  12. the beginning of time by rainmayun · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought time began on January 1st, 1970?

  13. Re:RealSound? Covox? by elgatozorbas · · Score: 2, Funny

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