Top 25 worst tech products of all time.

[Tainted_Girl]

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For those of you who have seen this tell me what you think PC World may have forgotten to include. I think that they might have been pretty dead on with the first five.

[techieMoe]

Ahh, Circuit City's DiVX program. The memories. It was like shareware for movies, but didn't catch on nearly as well. I remember the first DVD player I bought. It was a floor model (reduced price) that played DiVX movies and ran me about $150. At the time that was a bargain. (Think of what HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players go for these days. That was what regular DVD players used to cost.)

Interestingly enough, that little RCA DVD player still worked fine up until about a year ago.

What do I think they missed? Hmm. How about the Virtual Boy, or any of several other failed videogame consoles? Or who could forget the Flowbee?

[Vergil83]

People give AOL a lot of crap, but to be fair they gave technically dumb users a way to "use" the internet. There was no way people were going to use BBS or something they couldn't understand.

Also, I loved the zip disk (I still have one that has been unused for about 5 years). When you only had floppies or cdrw (which few computers had at work/school), they allowed you to save tons of stuff. The only problem I ever had with them were the metal thing (just like floppies) would get bent and then stuck in the computer. I remember downloading songs off some p2p program and saving them on my zip disk at school because I had super slow dial-up at home in 1999-2000.

[burntfuse]

Well, they were definitely right about Windows ME...I experienced that first-hand for 5 painful years.

[harner]

Apple Pippin' and the Apple Portable were pretty awesome. Haha

[techieMoe]

During my BBS days, I played with another failed program (though you can't really call it a "gadget") called eWorld. It went under a few months after we tried it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eworld

[fingal]

The company I work for uses a CRM system called GoldMine. However, we call it LeadMine informally. Avoid! We're getting rid of it soon ...

[netstrider]

I was thinking 30gigs.com really pathetic service...and damn SLOW! Gmail

[bidi]

I just can't believe AOL is in number one! I can see it being top 5, but Windows Me was definately a much worst product since it was, well, the OS. CNet had a list like that, but it was top 10, last year.

[easuter]

Also, I loved the zip disk (I still have one that has been unused for about 5 years). When you only had floppies or cdrw (which few computers had at work/school), they allowed you to save tons of stuff. The only problem I ever had with them were the metal thing (just like floppies) would get bent and then stuck in the computer. I remember downloading songs off some p2p program and saving them on my zip disk at school because I had super slow dial-up at home in 1999-2000.

My zip drive has also never given any problems. It still works, including the two 100mb discs I bought back with it in '98.