| Year | Technologies of the Year | Emerging Technologies | Hacks of the Year | Viruses | 1995 | WWW Search engines |
Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript) Virtual environments (VRML) Collaborative tools |
The Spot Hackers Movie Page |
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| 1996 | Search engines JAVA Internet Phone |
Virtual environments (VRML) Collaborative tools Internet appliance (Network Computer) |
US Dept of Justice CIA Air Force UK Labour Party NASA Air Force |
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| 1997 | Push Multicasting |
Push | Indonesian Govt NASA UK Conservative Party Spice Girls |
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| 1998 | E-Commerce E-Auctions Portals |
E-Trade XML Intrusion Detection |
US Dept of Commerce New York Times China Society for Human    Rights Studies UNICEF |
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| 1999 | E-Trade, Online Banking MP3 |
Net-Cell Phones Thin Computing Embedded Computing |
Star Wars .tp USIA E-Bay US Senate NSI Paraguay Gov't AntiOnline Microsoft UK Railtrack |
Melissa ExploreZip |
| 2000 | ASP Napster |
Wireless devices IPv6 |
RSA Security Apache Western Union Microsoft |
Love Letter (May) |
| 2001 | Grid Computing P2P |
Code Red Nimda SirCam BadTrans |