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IBM PC: Computers as a low-cost assemblage of electronic Lego parts made every neighborhood electronics geek a computer technician and every small office and home work room a data center. RELATIONAL DATABASES: The second generation of RDBMS systems began to take hold.
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By 1989 the world wide web was invented by Tim Berners -Lee
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1992 THE BROWSER: It made the Web work for the rest of us.
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E-MAIL: Electronic mail goes back to the 1960s, but it really started taking off with Web use. By 1997, the volume of business e-mail surpassed that of regular mail. ADOBE PDF: Lawyers and other control freaks love it! Also, it was perhaps the first truly effective document- sharing technology.
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WINDOWS 95: 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking made possible everything that has come along for the desktop since ' including the graphical Internet and Mac OS X.
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APACHE WEB SERVER: The reliable workhorse of the Web. UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS: Got all the device manufacturers to settle on one device bus. Cats, meet herder. MP3 AUDIO FORMAT: A file format that pretty much leveled an entire industry ' and movies are next. FLASH: Scripting your Web page like a movie, or anything else, with almost zero-client footprint.
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GOOGLE: We'd call it the portal to the Web, except portals aren't this easy to use. The search bar is rapidly becoming the sippy cup of culture ' with more than partial thanks to Wikipedia, Google's query shortstop. EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE: Data that tells us what our data is. But this data is in brackets, so we know what it means, more or less.
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WI-FI: The network computer Libre! BLACKBERRY: Life support for your government executive, with its push technology making the difference. VIRTUALIZATION FOR X86 ARCHITECTURES: Making the most of what you have. OPEN SSH: Telneting securely, saving untold fortunes in KVM switches.
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WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE: The beginning of the Semantic Web. ADOBE FLEX: Flash development, open-sourced in 2007, for Rich Internet Applications.
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FACEBOOK API/GOOGLE OPEN SOCIAL API: Social network programming goes mainstream. SPECIAL JUDGE'S AWARD: Evolving technologies for programmer nutrition: foods that can be eaten with one hand, such as Doritos with salsa; plus remote teleworking at Starbucks with a double-shot latte and raspberry muffin
