Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>]

In <4612d043$0$37450$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net> Tristan 
Mumford  wrote:
> mmphosis wrote:
> 
>> PC World's Second Best Tech Product of All Time: Apple II
>> 
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,2-c,technology/article.
>> html  I found this on slashdot.org ...  http://hardware.slashdot.org/
>> hardware/07/04/03/0225236.shtml  "PC World picks the 50 best tech 
>> products of all time. Apple holds down seven places in the list, 
>> Microsoft two, and open source software (Red Hat Linux) one. The top 
>> five, according to PC World, are:
> 
> Are they serious? Even given the assumption that they are talking 
> about computer related products in the last 30 years...

The earliest two products in the list are the Apple II and Atari VCS, 
both from 1977. Everthing else is from 1980 onwards.

>> Netscape Navigator (1994),
> 
> If they want to look at connectivity why not the MODEM, The IP stack,
> ARPANet, Mosaic etc etc.

The Hayes Smartmodem (1981) is covered. I understand why the other 
technologies you mentioned weren't though. "We salute those amazing 
products that changed technology--and our lives--forever." Mosaic had 
next to no direct impact on the general public, but Netscape's Navigator 
was for many their first experience of the Internet.
 
> Was the article written by a 13 year old?

Only six of the 50 picks are from before 1983 when PC World started.

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