Maximum PC: The Top 100 PC Tech Innovations of All Time

[Daniel from Montréal]

Sure, we love iPods, TiVo, and fancy-schmancy digital cameras, just like everyone else. But let’s talk about advances that make a difference where it really counts: in the PC.

While myriad best-of lists have ranked the greatest gadgets, software products, and videogames ever made, here we turn our attention to advances that have impacted the development, enjoyment, and raw power of the personal computer. Our staff-generated list looks at not just critical machines to come down the pike (#55), but also essential CPUs (#51), operating systems (#15), components (#18), and peripherals (#94), as well as the occasional piece of software (#74) and videogame (#9) that pushed PCs into new territory.

Cool read.

[Forza_Totti]

I was a fool who had RDRAM in 2000...lol

Nice read...nice to see all the advancements in the computing world.

[servotron]

Too many of those things were game-related.

Still always fun to look back on the olden days.... I remember when I managed to get my first hard drive... 30 megabytes, and it was a "hard card" meaning it had a built in ISA controller card... so I had an XT with an internal hard drive *and* 1 megabyte of ram *AND* an MCGA (320x200x256) / EGA(640x350x16)... WAY cooler than any of the other kids' XT's. I eventually had a 2400bps modem and a 320x200 video capture card (still frames only) that I have no idea how I came across as a kid but damnit I had one!

[Daniel from Montréal]

Too many of those things were game-related.

They do say right off the bat that there will be a pro-game bias as it's a gaming website.

[Windows_Forever]

To me, Windows XP wins it all.