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1) MacPaint - the original, on a Black & White 128kb Mac.

2) Usenet, Unix, VMS & Slirp (http://slirp.sourceforge.net/). I got to university and didn't know where to start

2) Doom. OMFG

3) Eclipse. The first time I saw the "Extract Method" refactoring I was speechless.

4) Google desktop search. Back when I had to use Outlook this let me actually find my email messages.

5) Dropbox. Been mentioned before, but it really did impress me that much.

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I used to love a game called Stuntcopter on our family's old grayscale macintosh. You'd drop the guy out of the helicopter through the clouds into a horse-drawn hay wagon.

We also had Microleague Baseball, which I wish I could find now it would be amazing. That game was awesome, it had custom speech capability and everything. EA Sports could learn a thing or three from them.

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