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Year-by-Year Internet Technology Trivia

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
 
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
 
1997 Push
Multicasting
Push Indonesian Govt
NASA
UK Conservative Party
Spice Girls
 
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
 
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