Incredibly awesome magazine PC World has come out with a Top 50 Best Tech Products of All Time list and boy is it full of nostalgia. Classics include 3dfx Voodoo3 at #16, the Motorola StarTAC at #8, Tetris at #10, and Napster at #4. The most recent item on the list is Blizzard’s World of Warcraft at #27, followed by the Canon EOS Digital Rebel at #44.
So who took the #1 spot? Was it Mac OS X? Perhaps the Nintendo Game Boy? Far from both, it’s actually Netscape Navigator. Yeah, that’s right. The 1994-browser you used back in school to visit LexisNexis reigns king over all gadgets and software. True, Netscape was the first mainstream browser to do it all, but the #1 spot on the 50 Best Tech Products of All Time? Psh. Way to blow it PC World.
50 Best Tech Products Of All Time [PC World]
I totally agree, Netscape shouldn’t be at number 1. I’m also surprised there is no mention of USB, remember having to deal with daisy-chained Parallel devices or even worse SCSI devices. USB actually made peripherals easy to manage.
I’ve been an IT professional for 7 years and I’m pretty sure I still can’t get a parallel printer, scanner, digital camera, and zip drive to all work at the same time with any major IRQ conflicts.
Cheers to USB!