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25 TECHNOLOGIES THAT CHANGED THE DECADE
eWEEK Labs names the products and technologies that have
changed the way we work, play and live By eWEEK Labs Staff
By most measures, the last 10 years were not the best of times. Terror- ism, natural disasters and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression have left many people happy to see the decade go away. In
fact, given the many bad things that did happen,
those who use the moniker “the Uh Ohs” to
define the decade probably have it about right.
But for technology, the last 10 years were
actually a very good time for innovation and
progress. During the last 10 years we’ve seen
very significant advances, especially in the areas
of mobile devices and the ability to use the Web
as a computing platform.
For example, if you compare a modern smartphone to a late-’90s cell phone, its seems like
a lot more than 10 or so years separate the two
devices. Look at the static and uninteractive
Web of 10 years ago, and then look at a modern
AJAX- and social network-enabled Website. It’s
amazing we were able to do anything on the
old Web. And across the tech spectrum, as
