Review PC World’s list of the Top 50 Technology Products of All Time, and figure out how many you had or used.
Of the 50, we have or have had most of them, especially if you count descendent products (*).
- Netscape Navigator
- Tivo (* our is a DirecTV/Tivo combo box)
- Napster
- Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS
- Apple iPod (yes, an original one)
- Hayes Smartmodem (* though ours was 2400 baud, not 300)
- Moto Star-TAC (* we had a digital version)
- WordPerfect 5.1. Wow.
- Tetris.
- Photoshop (* We had a copy a little later, around 96)
- Thinkpad 700C (* We had a 560Z)
- Atari VCS/2600
- Mac Plus (* We’re Powerbook people, but we’ve damn sure used old-skool Macs.)
- RIM Blackberry 857 (* We had a more recent iteration in 2004)
- The first digital Elph
- Palm Pilot 1000
- Doom.
- Win95
- iTunes 4
- Iomega Zip drive
- WOW
- PageMaker (* The version we used was in 1990)
- HP LaserJet 4L (We only recently ditched it)
- OS X
- Nintendo NES
- Eudora
- Airport
- Print Shop (* but on a PC, in 1987)
- McAfee VirusScan
- Sound Blaster
- Hypercard
- Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer
- PC Tools (* our copy was verison 5)
- Red Hat Linux
- PC Talk
- Excel. (Every Windows version since 1991.)
- Northgate Omnikey Ultra. We wish we knew where ours was.