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26 Key Innovations Of The Last 20 Years

Started by sbspalding · 11 months ago

This list is an attempt to cover some of the most important innovations in technology in the last 20 years. Like any list of this kind it’s more clearly defined by what’s not included than what is. I have tried to include a wide array of innovations, but it is somewhat skewed towards consumer technologies. [...]




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15 comments

  • Business networking

    11 months ago

    I didn't realize Linux came out 1 year after windows 3.0. Wow, talk about what a difference marketing can make. Comparing the marketing efforts of those two should be taught in every basic marketing class in the world.
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  • MJK

    11 months ago

    Not sure what your getting at. It started out as a non-commercial effort, a hobby. There are several such projects even now: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/hobbyos.html . No one within the linux kernel project itself really went out of their way to "market" linux. In fact, you could say it was created as a refuge to get away from marketing/MBA-tards.
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  • Tyler

    11 months ago

    Umm....Cell phones?
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  • sbspalding

    11 months ago

    Cell phones are from before 1988.
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  • Larry

    11 months ago

    Why not mention the person who started the ipod: Tony Fadell. It's only fair.

    Here's the only link that I know of that talks about the true founder of the ipod:
    http://www.engin.umich.edu/alumni/engineer/04SS...

    Apple for some reason only provides this type of info:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fadell
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  • Dan

    11 months ago

    This is quite possible the best post I've seen on any blog for some time. Great work there. We laugh now about some of the 'new things' back then. But it's really remarkable I think to see how fast we're not developing. It's certainly a peoples planet now. And communication has been a key to that I feel.
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  • sachxn

    11 months ago

    iPhone.
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  • Tech Forum

    9 months ago

    Linux and Java is something that is big to me professionally , when I mean big i mean really big.

    Personally I would say that IPod and Wiki was the best.

    Great list. Good for some nostalgia! :)
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  • tiberiu84

    7 months ago

    Let's not forget about the scientifical techniques that are present in an alcohol rehab... People have a higher chance of getting cured for an addiction.
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  • noroadzone

    7 months ago

    i never thought that fuel cell cars appeared in 1997, and i thought that hybrid cars is one of the greatest inventions today. it's a shame that hybrid cars were not included in the list...
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  • Dimi

    5 months ago

    Right! What about Marsian life found recently?
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  • mmo

    5 months ago

    Beautiful blog post :) DIGG this!
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  • jackthomas2k8

    4 months ago

    Let's not forget about the scientifical techniques that are present in an alcohol rehab... People have a higher chance of getting cured for an addiction.
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  • Stem cell transplant

    4 months ago

    Stem cells in an organism of the adult person are developed by a bone brain. It is their basic source, but it is far not the unique. Also stem cells are found out and in a fatty fabric, a skin, muscles, a liver, lungs, an eye retina, practically in all bodies and organism fabrics. They provide restoration of the damaged sites of bodies and fabrics.
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  • celeb news

    3 months ago

    Youtube only came out in 2005? Wow. That's amazing to me. Weird to think lol seriously.
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