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Nothing can top the surprise and thrill of using Photoshop 1 or 2 for the first time way back when...

I also have to add PostScript, if that counts. Revolutionary.
 
satty said:
The software the impressed me most at the time I started to use it was definitely:

Lotus 1-2-3.

Good old days :rolleyes:

Can you believe I'm being trained on Lotus Notes next week?

And this is a district wide mandate ...
 
I would nominate TeX / LaTeX. Not only because of the quality of the documents you can produce, but TeX is pretty much bug-free, which is remarkable given its complexity.
 
jsw said:
I always thought that most people considered Windows to be number 2.

Sure, but Mac OS beat it there under the criteria of teh article. Object-oriented operating on Mac came well before Windows. The only thing that Windows has on Mac is that it gained universal acceptability.
 
Le Big Mac said:
Sure, but Mac OS beat it there under the criteria of teh article. Object-oriented operating on Mac came well before Windows. The only thing that Windows has on Mac is that it gained universal acceptability.

*** WHOOSH!! ***

That's the sound of jsw's joke going right over your head...

Pay heed to the man's signature...
 
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