25 worst tech products of all time

Diggdot has a link to the 25 worst tech products of all time, and right on top, where it belongs is America Online.

Here's the way it goes. There are a lot, and i mean a lot of people over the years that have been perfectly happy with America Online, but the folks there in recent years have decided to change it completely, thus irritating the folks who were willing to pay for the service.

I know a person who was so fond of it that they were willing to pay $10 a month to run it on top of their broadband connection just to listen to AOL radio and use the AOL e-mail, but with continuous changes that user eventually decided to go over to the GMail camp, because they wanted something simple and reliable to work with.

AOL's right moves in recent years have included opening up IMAP access to your e-mail accounts, which a lot of business users were hoping for since they have a vested interest in their AOL accounts established over long periods of time. This way business users with outlook contact lists could still check their aol e-mail from within outlook. That in my opinion was the last smart thing that AOL did.

Their client sucks, even on a freshly installed windows XP CD. It's slow, flakey, and completely useless to navigate. If a user wants just a few simple features, they have to navigate through all sorts of other crap. Not to mention the agressive advertising to PAYING customers. What the hell is my 10 a month going to if i'm going to have to sit through that crap. Why am I giving you money, please explain it to me.