The top 6 WORST Tech products of all time

Some of these products are so bad that the companies that made them should be paying us NOT to have used them. This list is adapted from PC Worlds Top 25 Worst Tech products.

1. America Online (1989-2006): This company has mostly affected Americans, but traces of AOL are all over the internet. American users have suffered through awful software, inaccessible dial-up numbers, rapacious marketing, in-your-face advertising, questionable billing practices, inexcusably poor customer service, and enough spam to last a lifetime.
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999): Almost any internet user that didn’t know what they were doing, mistakenly downloaded this awful player just to watch adverts or just to view a website. It also made itself cosy within your registry as well as popping up annoying messages that were actually adverts. Blah.
3. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000): Also known as ME, or Mistake Edition was by far the worst OS that Microsoft ever created. The minute it was released users complained about getting it to install, getting it to work with hardware and even getting it to stop working. Y2K was never really a bug. Windows ME was.
4. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005): When you insert a music CD into your PC, it should do nothing else but play music. Not Sony’s BMG CD’s. These CD’s installed a rootkit that made it invisible even to antispyware or antivirus software. This meant that any half-clever hacker could get into your PC, and possibly installing a keylogger to get hold of your bank details, or turn your PC into a Zombie. The end is not near for Sony who have been hit with class-action suits one after the other regarding their infamous rootkit. Bad boy Sony, bad boy.
5. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001): Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet. By visiting the wrong website, a users PC could be infected with the Scob or Download.Ject keylogger, which could be used to steal your personal information. Microsoft patched that hole, and the next one, and the one after that, and so on and so forth. Heres to IE7 being a lot better than its predecessor.
6. Iomega Zip Drive (1998): Click-click-click. That was the sound of data dying on thousands of Iomega Zip drives. They sold millions of Jaz and Zip Drives, but thousands of the drives died mysteriously, issuing a clicking noise as the drive head became misaligned and clipped the edge of the removable media, rendering any data on that disc permanently inaccessible. Today, thankfully, it has been replaced with inexpensive flash drives and removable media such as CD’s and DVD’s.

So there you have it, the top 6 worst tech products of all time. Are there any others that you think deserve a mention on this list?