PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

Okay - now I'm ticked off - I understand that AOL may not be for 'everybody' anymore - but I think there's a bit of revisionism and a bit of schadenfreunde. I think my favorite bit is "--which AOL subscribers were finally able to access in 1995--" Let's see 1995, people were running AOL 2.5? On Windows 3.1? The options for browsers were what? IE (2.0?) for Windows 3.x or Netscape (which required Win32s I seem to recall). --- Wonder "which" internet we were denied to our members in 1993 and 1994? Mosaic --- 1993, Mozilla -- 1994. And then then there is content. AOL in 1995 had a very rich amount of content- support forums for different companies, etc - it wasn't unusual at the time for a company to have an AOL keyword - but NO web address. And don't even get me started about getting winsock configurations and the tcp/ip stacks working right on Windows 3.1.

Wish I had some back issues of PCWorld from 1995 - I suspect we'd see a different story.