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PC World - The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

By Robert | April 3, 2007

Today PC World have release their list of the top 50 tech products of all time. This is a list of the most important products in tech history, good or bad. I myself would not consider some of these products to be in the top 50 and i feel they have left out a few very important ones out but all in all it’s still a good read and should bring back some memory’s for all you old school geeks out there.

So after considering hundreds of products and engaging in many hours of painstaking debate, PC World presents the 50 best tech products. Note that we’re looking only at technology that has arisen since the dawn of the personal computer, so don’t expect to see the cotton gin and the transistor radio on the list. Instead, you’ll find gear that, in all likelihood, you used yourself at one point or another–and, in many cases, products you’re still using today.

Full list in no particular order:

3dfx Voodoo3 (1999)

Adaptec Easy CD Creator (1996)

Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1994)

Aldus PageMaker (1985)

Apple II (1977)

Apple Airport Base Station (1999)

Apple HyperCard (1987)

Apple iPod (2001)

Apple iTunes 4 (2003)

Apple Mac OS X (2001)

Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)

Atari VCS/2600 (1977)

Blizzard World of Warcraft (2004)

Brøderbund The Print Shop (1984)

Canon Digital Elph S100 (2000)

Canon EOS Digital Rebel (2003)

Central Point Software PC Tools (1985)

ChipSoft TurboTax (1985)

Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)

Compaq Deskpro 386 (1986)

CompuServe (1982)

Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 (1992)

Epson MX-80 (1980)

Eudora (1988)

Hayes Smartmodem (1981)

HP LaserJet 4L (1993)

IBM ThinkPad 700C (1992)

id Software Doom (1993)

Iomega Zip Drive (1994)

Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)

McAfee VirusScan (1990)

Microsoft Excel (1985)

Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)

Mirabilis ICQ (1996)

Motorola StarTAC (1996)

Napster (1999)

Netscape Navigator (1994)

Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)

Nintendo Game Boy (1989)

Northgate OmniKey Ultra (1987)

Palm Pilot 1000 (1996)

PC-Talk (1982)

Red Hat Linux (1994)

RIM BlackBerry 857 (2000)

Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (1995)

Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997)

Spybot Search & Destroy (2000)

Tetris (1985)

TiVo HDR110 (1999)

WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)