Over at Silicon Alley Insider, Gregory Galant has a wonderful post about "18 Awesome Tech Things We Didn't Have 10 Years Ago." It serves as another great example of the amazing technological progress we have witnessed over the past decade. He's asking people for suggestions for what else should be on the list, so head over there and let him know. Seems like wi-fi technologies should be on there somehow. FiOS deserves a shout-out, too. And where's Firefox & Chrome? Also, I'll put in a special word for some amazing new home theater technologies: high-def flat-screens and projectors; media servers & Windows Media Center; BluRay; and 3 incredible gaming / media consoles (Wii, PS3, & XBox). Anyway, here's Galant's list:
- Wikipedia
- Gmail
- YouTube
- AdWords
- Amazon AWS
- RSS (started in '99 but didn't catch on till the '00s)
- Meetup
- iPod
- Google Maps
- Podcasts
- Mint
- Skype/VOIP
- iPhone
- Google Docs
- Creative Commons
- Flickr
