The 50 Best and The 25 Worst Tech Products of All TimeBack
2009-01-01
The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time   
 

Popular magazine PC World selected The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time, which are the most considerable achievements in the field of consumer electronics, computing engineering and mobile communication:

1.  Netscape Navigator (1994)  browser
2.  Apple II (1977)  computer 

3.  TiVo HDR110 (1999) TiVo replaced the VHS tape with a monster hard drive, recording shows to disk instead of to analog media. That meant you could pause and resume live TV, skip through commercials in an instant, and record shows with just a few clicks of the remote control

4.  Napster (1999)

5.  Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983).
6.  Apple iPod (2001)7.   Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
 
7.  Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
8.  Motorola StarTAC (1996)
 
9.   WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)
10. Tetris (1985).
11. Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1994)
12. IBM ThinkPad 700C (1992)
13. Atari VCS/2600 (1977)
14. Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)
15. RIM BlackBerry 857 (2000)
16. 3dfx Voodoo3 (1999)
17. Canon Digital Elph S100 (2000)
18. Palm Pilot 1000 (1996)
19. id Software Doom (1993)
20. Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)
21. Apple iTunes 4 (2003)
22. Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
23. Iomega Zip Drive (1994)
24. Spybot Search & Destroy (2000)
25. Compaq Deskpro 386 (1986)
26. CompuServe (1982)
27. Blizzard World of Warcraft (2004)
28. Aldus PageMaker (1985)
29. HP LaserJet 4L (1993)
30. Apple Mac OS X (2001)
31. Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)
32. Eudora (1988)
33. Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (1995)
34. Apple Airport Base Station (1999)
35. Brøderbund The Print Shop (1984)
36. McAfee VirusScan (1990)
37. Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)
38. ChipSoft TurboTax (1985)
39. Mirabilis ICQ (1996)
40. Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 (1992)
41. Apple HyperCard (1987)
42. Epson MX-80 (1980)
43. Central Point Software PC Tools (1985)
44. Canon EOS Digital Rebel (2003)
45. Red Hat Linux (1994)
46. Adaptec Easy CD Creator (1996)
47. PC-Talk (1982)
48. Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997)
49. Microsoft Excel (1985)
50. Northgate OmniKey Ultra (1987)

 The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

 

These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame:

1.America Online (1989-2006) The biggest American provider
2.RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999) media player
3.Syncronys SoftRAM (1995) Program
4.Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5.Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6.Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7.Microsoft Bob (1995)
8.Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9.Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10.dBASE IV (1988
11.Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12.PointCast (1996)
13.IBM PCjr. (1984)
14.Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15.Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16.Comet Cursor (1997)
17.Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18.IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19.OQO Model 1 (2004)
20.CueCat (2000)
21.Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22.Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23.Free PCs (1999)
24.DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25.Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

 

All information was taken from the official site of  PCworld magazine.