{"id":73,"date":"2005-07-12T00:07:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunaldua.com\/index.php\/archives\/64"},"modified":"2005-07-12T00:07:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:37:03","slug":"top-10-downloads-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/top-10-downloads-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 downloads of the decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCNET is featuring a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/4520-11136_1-6257577-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd\">top 10 downloads of the decade<\/a> since they opened for downloads in 1996. ICQ and Winamp at #1and 2 are no surprise, but Acrobat Reader at a &#8220;lowly&#8221; #10 is (atleast to me). I guess everyone doesn&#8217;t use PDFs (really?!!).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFirefox&#8217;s popularity is evident from the fact that it is at #4 already, less than two years after it&#8217;s debut. Two old favourites, Winzip and Real Player are at numbers 5 and 9, either side of 3 relatively new entrants. iTunes is up at no. 6 and the latest &#8220;hot app&#8221;, Skype, is at 8. Sandwiched between them is Ad-aware, which is a sad refelction of what the windows world is like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe biggest surprise, of course, is the old Napster which finds itself at no. 3. Remember this is a software which hasn&#8217;t had a single copy downloaded for years. P2P at it&#8217;s earliest best. No wonder they decided to go after it and shut it down &#8211; it was <em>that<\/em> popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nCNET&#8217;s top 10 downloads since 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-www","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}