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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

PC World's Top 50 Technology Products of All Time

And for the tech enthusiast (and nostalgic reader): PC World's compiled a list of (in its opinion) the 50 Best Technology Products to date. Disagreements to ensue, I am sure. But an interesting list nonetheless.

A quick summary and ranked order of the 50:

Netscape Navigator (1994)
Apple II (1977)
TiVo HDR110 (1999)
Napster (1999)
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)
Apple iPod (2001)
Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
Motorola StarTAC (1996)
WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)
Tetris (1985)
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1994)
IBM ThinkPad 700C (1992)
Atari VCS/2600 (1977)
Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)
RIM BlackBerry 857 (2000)
3dfx Voodoo3 (1999)
Canon Digital Elph S100 (2000)
Palm Pilot 1000 (1996)
id Software Doom (1993)
Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)
Apple iTunes 4 (2003)
Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
Iomega Zip Drive (1994)
Spybot Search & Destroy (2000)
Compaq Deskpro 386 (1986)
CompuServe (1982)
Blizzard World of Warcraft (2004)
Aldus PageMaker (1985)
HP LaserJet 4L (1993)
Apple Mac OS X (2001)
Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)
Eudora (1988)
Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (1995)
Apple Airport Base Station (1999)
Brøderbund The Print Shop (1984)
McAfee VirusScan (1990)
Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)
ChipSoft TurboTax (1985)
Mirabilis ICQ (1996)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 (1992)
Apple HyperCard (1987)
Epson MX-80 (1980)
Central Point Software PC Tools (1985)
Canon EOS Digital Rebel (2003)
Red Hat Linux (1994)
Adaptec Easy CD Creator (1996)
PC-Talk (1982)
Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997)
Microsoft Excel (1985)
Northgate OmniKey Ultra (1987)

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