PC World Ranks 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

[ChaoZ]

The iPod is in there but not the Sony Walkman?

 

[50cent1228]

nevermind

 

[50cent1228]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
The iPod is in there but not the Sony Walkman?

ya thats messed up

 

[tm37]

Netscape Navigator (1994) Yep
Apple II (1977) Nope had a c=64
TiVo HDR110 (1999) nope
Napster (1999) ummm...
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983) nope
Apple iPod (2001) still no
Hayes Smartmodem (1981) yeah plugged into my c=64
Motorola StarTAC (1996) Yeah
WordPerfect 5.1 (1989) Yep
Tetris (1985) Who did not?
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1994) nope
IBM ThinkPad 700C (1992) nope
Atari VCS/2600 (1977) Oh Yeah adventure was the bomb
Apple Macintosh Plus (1986) nope
RIM BlackBerry 857 (2000) nope
3dfx Voodoo3 (1999) Oh YEah
Canon Digital Elph S100 (2000) nope
Palm Pilot 1000 (1996) nope
id Software Doom (1993) Yep
Microsoft Windows 95 (1995) Oh YEah
Apple iTunes 4 (2003) Nope
Nintendo Game Boy (1989) Had one
Iomega Zip Drive (1994) Had one I remeber my joy when I upgraded to the USB version and I got a 10 pack of disks at costco for $99 (that less than $10 a disk)
Spybot Search & Destroy (2000) Yep
Compaq Deskpro 386 (1986) nope
CompuServe (1982) We had compuseve and then switched over to AOL
Blizzard World of Warcraft (2004) nope
Aldus PageMaker (1985) nope
HP LaserJet 4L (1993) Had a used one for a while
Apple Mac OS X (2001) nope
Nintendo Entertainment System (1985) DUCKHUNT ( I had the power pad as well)
Eudora (1988) nope
Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (1995) nope
Apple Airport Base Station (1999) nope
Brøderbund The Print Shop (1984) Yes
McAfee VirusScan (1990) Nope
Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985) We went PC instead
ChipSoft TurboTax (1985) nope
Mirabilis ICQ (1996) never used it
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 (1992) Yeah that was a spendy upgrade
Apple HyperCard (1987) nope
Epson MX-80 (1980) Yep they had an adapter to plug into the commidore
Central Point Software PC Tools (1985) nope
Canon EOS Digital Rebel (2003) no
Red Hat Linux (1994) Tried it
Adaptec Easy CD Creator (1996) Easy to use but I prefer Nero Also I used NTI that came with my MEMOREX 2X CDR (I did not want to spend the extra $50 to go to 4X)
PC-Talk (1982) nope
Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997) nope
Microsoft Excel (1985) nope
Northgate OmniKey Ultra (1987) nope

 

[Stumps]

how the hell did the Voodoo 3 get there...it was a steaming pile of crap...I know I have one (well 2 actually)....some where in my stockpile of parts..

 

[SonicIce]

im using a voodoo3 right now in my old pc. i know a 3dfx card should be in the list but it probably should have been the voodoo1 or 2. but 3 is good too, its the thought that counts.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

No Ps2?

 

[hiredgoons]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's a nice list but Windows 95 belongs higher up than Doom. It was the first real consumer-friendly OS for the Wintel masses.

windows 3.1 was

Windows 3.1 sucked.

Yes, and Windows 95 was of extremely high quality :roll:

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: novasatori

Originally posted by: ElFenix
voodoo3? wtf?

EXACTLY

I'd love to see a poll of how many people owned a Voodoo 3, I knew one person... Voodoo 2? everyone and their brother, if you didn't own a Voodoo 2 you were a nobody.

TNT? Yea similar to Voodoo 2, mostly everyone I knew had Voodoo 2/TNT combo cause it was the best of both worlds.

I don't see how they couldn't make the list, and I thought it was the Voodoo 3/5 that lead to the downfall of 3dfx.

Wasn't there a pretty big deal because the Voodoo 3 didn't support 32bit colors in 3d?

The Voodoo 3 was kind of the beginning of the end for 3dfx. Why they didn't put the Voodoo 1 or 2 on that list is beyond me.

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

shouldn't wow be replaced with eq?

 

[tmc]

if doom is there, why not prince of persia?

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: novasatori

Originally posted by: ElFenix
voodoo3? wtf?

EXACTLY

I'd love to see a poll of how many people owned a Voodoo 3, I knew one person... Voodoo 2? everyone and their brother, if you didn't own a Voodoo 2 you were a nobody.

TNT? Yea similar to Voodoo 2, mostly everyone I knew had Voodoo 2/TNT combo cause it was the best of both worlds.

I don't see how they couldn't make the list, and I thought it was the Voodoo 3/5 that lead to the downfall of 3dfx.

Voodoo 3 was the best selling video card ever at its point in time. It was basically the critical mass of 3dfx, and succeeded almost purely on the reputation 3dfx had built up at that point. It's generally regarded as when 3dfx lost its direction too. The best selling video card thing isn't really important, since I'm sure something geforce 2 went on to sell even more shortly thereafter, and if anything be more important as it brought out the standardization of 3d graphics.

In fact, a lot of the things on there don't see to be the true starters or pushers of any idea, but rather the actual representation that the idea was solid and going to stay. Not how lists of the most important anythings are usually made, for instance I'd say everquest or ultima online are infinitely more worthy of being on that list than world of warcraft.

 

[linkgoron]

Meh, that list is messed up, and is missing a lot of things.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: novasatori
Why on earth is the voodoo 3 on there, it should be Voodoo 2 and then also the TNT imo

What about the original Voodoo? That was pretty much all there was at the time, and it really shook the industry.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Descartes

I think you're missing the point here. Doom is widely perceived as being the title that started the FPS genre. I might even go so far as to say it was the catalyst for gaming in general, and many people will perceive it that way. It's not an issue of what had superior technology.

IMO

That would be Wolfenstein. I remember when that came out, and it pretty much set the trend for 1st person 3d gaming. Doom was their follow up to Wolfenstein.

 

[her209]

Where the hell is PKZIP?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: hiredgoons

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's a nice list but Windows 95 belongs higher up than Doom. It was the first real consumer-friendly OS for the Wintel masses.

windows 3.1 was

Windows 3.1 sucked.

Yes, and Windows 95 was of extremely high quality :roll:

It was a huge user interface improvement. Probably the most significant user interface improvement Windows has ever had. Which is why the interface is still pretty similar.

Perhaps MacOS 6 would have been a better choice (or System 6 as it was called)?

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Am I the only person thinking "what a stupid ****** list?"

Damned title doesn't make any sense -- this is a computer-related-tech list, if anything.

 

[b0mbrman]

I'd say the .mp3 format itself did more to shake up the world than Napster did...

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
I'd say the .mp3 format itself did more to shake up the world than Napster did...

Whatever the format, Napster is what made it popular.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
The iPod is in there but not the Sony Walkman?

That's #1 on another list

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123950-page,1-c,electronics/article.html

 

[herm0016]

we owned 19, 40, 35. all were great products. the version of print shop pro we had was awesome software. i wish i still had it around!
we could make anything on there with our great HP560C oh man, that darn thing will still print!!!

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
I'd say the .mp3 format itself did more to shake up the world than Napster did...

Whatever the format, Napster is what made it popular.

Napster would be trying to pass around 50 mb .wav's if it weren't for the format

...the file sharing problem would eventually solve itself, but having a 5 mb file rather than a 50 mb file (back in dial-up times when modems downloaded at 2 mb/hour) is what really drove the music sharing revolution