Microsoft was pretty loved back "in the day" (80s to 90s). Maybe not as much as an enterprise OS company but their developer support was pretty awesome before most people had access to "everything" via the Internet.
I'm not sure anyone else really qualifies as a big very consumer-facing tech company in the modern sense from that era or before though, of course, there were many once popular companies like MySpace that just flamed out. Yahoo! might be an example.
I'm not sure anyone else really qualifies as a big very consumer-facing tech company in the modern sense from that era or before though, of course, there were many once popular companies like MySpace that just flamed out. Yahoo! might be an example.