LINKInteresting article, especially bringing back some nostalgia with some of the products. One thing: Why isn't USB listed on there?
Anyways, I'll list some of the stuff I have used in the past here.
Netscape Navigator: Heck yeah, back in the day when internet browsers were sold in stores and couldn't be downloaded.
Napster: Definately. I have yet to find another program that was as good as Napster.
Tetris: Who didn't play that game? I still play it on my cell phone to this day. And, yes, I had a Game Boy and it came with Tetris.
Adobe Photoshop 3.0: I didn't have 3.0 but I use its successor, CS2, now.
Atari 2600: I think we used to have one of those but I can't remember. Help me out here, parental units. I know we had an Atari but I can't remember what model number.
Apple Macintosh Plus: Good lord, my high school used these archaic beasts in the late 90s. I seriously hope they've gotten new computers since then.
Doom: Oh, no, I've played Doom. I'm going to go on a massive rampage and kill people!
Microsoft Windows 95: Yup, used this for a long time. By the time I got a new computer, Windows 98 was already surpassed (chronologically) by *shudder* Windows ME. But I still remember good ole Windows 3.11.
Game Boy: Everybody in my class had one of these... except me. Then I finally got one and it was the sweetness.
Iomega Zip Drive: Oh, heck yeah. Had me one of these, originally my dad's. In fact, I still have it somewhere in the garage, complete with the cable but I lost the installtion disk (yes, disk, not disc. It was a floppy and not a CD). And I do have two Zip disks lying around somewhere.
Spybot: I use it in addition to AdAware. I make sure to suggest this product to anybody who asks about programs they need on a computer.
CompuServe: Yup, we used CompuServe as our ISP for a bit... during the 14.4 and 28.8 days.
HP Laserjet: I could swear we had one of these but it could have been another brand. All I remember is replacing the cartridge cost about $150 but it lasted forever.
NES: I never had one of these growing up, I always had to go over to a friend's house to play it. I bet my parents thought the Atari was good enough
Eudora: Yeah, before Hotmail there was Eudora for keeping track of your e-mail. I used to use it.
McAfee Virus Scan: Never used the original but I used to use a later version that eventually expired. After a brief tour with a pirated Norton that kept interfering with Adobe Acrobat (for some reason Norton would think the program was malicious when it converted files to PDF) and Battlefield 2, I switched to AVG
ICQ: Oh, my, ICQ. That was
the IM program to have back then. I agree with the article: the use of numbers for your ID was a hassle. You couldn't just simply tell a friend while out somewhere what your number was because it was so long and impossible to remember.
Adaptec Easy CD Creator: I think I did use this program when it was still owned by Adaptec.
Microsoft Excel: I use the later versions, but never used the earlier versions
