Top 15 Tech Events of the Decade

Posted On 12/31/2009 01:06:00 AM by Jered Schneider |




Do you remember what you were doing 10 years ago today? I do.

I was helping my grandma stack gallons of purified water and dozens of canned goods in preparation of Y2K. Even though I was still a young pup, I knew that all of the world's nuclear warheads would not detonate at midnight. But if it did, my grandma would be able to live off of canned green beans well into the nuclear winter.

I'm pretty sure she pictured it to be something like this



This has been quite a decade in many respects. PC World has put together a list of the Top 15 Tech Events of the Decade. Take a trip down memory lane of the biggest tech related news stories of the past 10 years.

From PC World:
For the ten-year span that started in 2000, turbulence was the name of the game in high tech. Fortunes were made and lost, everyday users took control of the reins, and technology-watching became a spectator sport. It was a chaotic time, but it was seldom dull. Here, then, is a look at the decade that was: the highlights and lowlights, the booms and busts, the fizzles and sizzles....
See the full list HERE


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