The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time (2006)

I was 9 when the Lion King CD came out. My parents did give it to me on Christmas, and they tried to play it for me on a new computer.

It was my first experience desperately trying to hack a computer system. If that had never happened, I may never have acquired an interest in computers.

Thank you Disney, for sucking so much.

Single page instead of 8: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,125772/printable...

They forgot OS/2, which certainly was one of the worst tech marketing fiascos of all times and which helped plunge IBM into a dark place as Bill Gates laughed himself silly.

I still remember my shock when I (as a non-techie type) finally got it installed after hours of frustration only to find that few, if any, drivers worked on it - leaving you with all the theoretically great features in the world and at the same time unable even to print a document or do other basic things.

My entire family uses aol on top of their broadband and won't let me explain that you can still keep your email if you aren't paying for it, it is like aol has brainwashed them.

And the ads attached to their email and yahoos are extremely annoying to me

Two things - one - DB IV had a GREAT report writer - very RPG-2 ish. You could throw in breakpoint sub-totals anywhere, AND it gave you the source code in dbase for the report!

When I worked in Clipper later I wanted to get DB4 just to create the reports in it and paste the source code into Clipper. Couldn't find it then.

Also - I liked Pointcast. I wish it had stuck around.