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Story: Internet Explorer 'most influential' tech product

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IT professionals must have short memories

I'm mystified.

Ok accepted, the survey was for the most influential tech product of the last 25 years. C is not a product, nor is the tcp stack.

But if you go back to 1982, was there a PC on everyone's desk? Or a mac? No

In terms of technological change influencing our lives over the last 25 years, the personal computer (of any make) has surely had the most influence.

Without it, we would have no web, no email, no MP3s, no 3d PC gaming, no internet banking, no digital photos, ... the list is endless

Do tech professionals have such short memories they cannot remember those days 25 years ago when we didn't have this? Maybe this is the real proof that the personal computer has had such an influence. We cannot remember what life was like before it.

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