20 years in IT history: Connectivity

1998: XML

XML, a markup language optimized for the Internet, supporting most known human scripts and compatible across a wide range of languages and platforms, increased the power and capacities of the Net.

1999: Wireless and Y2K

Time magazine named Jeff Bezos of Amazon its "Person of the Year," writing that "e-business is rapidly replacing the traditional kind for almost any purchase you can imagine."

PS/2, NeXT and OOPs, Netware 3 Archie, Linux, Windows Mosaic, Spam and More, Convergence The Dotcoms, Distributed Compution, XML Wireless and Y2K, Millennial Change and Angst, Blogs Sarbanes-Oxley, Virtualization, ERP Hangover Multicore Processors, The Network, The iPhone