PC World's 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

[ryberg]

Don't know if anyone else has seen this

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

but it's kinda funny.

I'll spoil it a bit with this excerpt from the beginning:

1. America Online (1989-2006)

How do we loathe AOL? Let us count the ways. Since America Online emerged from the belly of a BBS called Quantum "PC-Link" in 1989, users have suffered through awful software, inaccessible dial-up numbers, rapacious marketing, in-your-face advertising, questionable billing practices, inexcusably poor customer service, and enough spam to last a lifetime. And all the while, AOL remained more expensive than its major competitors. This lethal combination earned the world's biggest ISP the top spot on our list of bottom feeders . . .

Other good stuff at their related links with diametrically opposed content:

The 100 Best Products of 2006
The 100 Best Products of 2005

Steve

[eccentrictinker]

Your post reminded me of a guy who was trying to amass a million AOL cd's, by having people ship him their copies, so that he could dump them on the CEO's front yard. I tried "the Google" but no mention was made of the effort.

But, I did learn that there is an active community of AOL disk collectors out there! What is this world coming to?

[StewartG]

Thanks Steve!

Fun link! I remember a lot of these winners!