The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
 

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...72,pg,8,00.asp
they didn't hold any punches back on this list!

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
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)

That made my day!

the only good thing to come from AOL was when they were sent out of floppy discs and you got a free floppy disc! :lol:

whats funny is I bought that 2000 gateway with windows millinium I was in hell big time

I had a few of those flops, mainly the zip drive..... oh how it was supposed to make things easier, but it blows when you have a backed up hardrive and you cant get it back....

sony minidisk

your right, he forgot that one :1orglaugh :thumbsup

Clippy isn't on the list?

Let's see, I had a laptop bundled with Windows ME and installed 2000 on it as soon as humanly possible. It was a p.o.s otherwise.

I paid for RealProducer in 1999 to do all my site's videos. Now I can barely convert those old things up to WMV and they look like crap and that's if their audio works.

IE 6 is largely unused. Firefox can't log into my government's Epass system, so that's about the only thing I use IE for. Well, that and testing sites.

And yep, I had zip drives AND the Sparq drive. Go me.

they hit the nail on the head

i actually didn't find the MD that bad. yeah mp3 players were around but most of them were 32/64mb and you couldn't upgrade the memory not to mention that they all looked like ass back then

What about Lotus 3.0 and Agenda

Millenium did suck asscrack LOL

great list

nice thanks for sharing.

Most of those I can relate

RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)

It was out way before 1999. I remember using it to listen to streaming radio stations back in 1996.

Apple Newton?

I admit, I owned a Coleco Adam computer. I even belonged to an Adam Users group. I replaced it with a Mac portable, then a Gateway with AOL access. I now outsource all my technology buying decisions.

They where shitty back then, but boy have they improved.

funny list

ha.. fucking realplayer.. serves them rights.. zip disks weren't bad though.. they definately filled a niche at the time - the only problem was that they were usurped by cheap burners and usb drives, can't help that.

IE6 roxxors.

Nice List :)
i think that should be made every month :)

What is "15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)" doing there....biased people to say the least

maybe not every month but deffinatly a yearly review of the best and worst inventions.