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SLIP/PPP (Serial Line Internet Protocol and Point-to-Point Protocol)
We've forgotten about this now, but SLIP/PPP ' mostly PPP ' is what got everyone on the Internet via dial-up modems back when broadband was an obscure industry term. -
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LINUX
A Unix knockoff that is the world's largest hobby project for coders. A select few are among the world's best. -
GRAPHICS COPROCESSORS
They made the fancy stuff possible by pulling graphics data away from the CPU and eventually gave rise to separate graphics cards. -
HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
You send the instructions to the remote computer and let it figure out how to render the layout, dummy! PCI SLOTS: Rumors are unconfirmed that the national boost in technology productivity came from the thousands of admins who no longer had to fiddle with the IRQ settings each time they installed a new peripheral. -
THE BROWSER
It made the Web work for the rest of us. -
E-MAIL
Electronic mail goes back to the 1960s, but it really started taking off with Web use. By 1997, the volume of business e-mail surpassed that of regular mail. -
ADOBE PDF
Lawyers and other control freaks love it! Also, it was perhaps the first truly effective document- sharing technology. -
JPEG
Lit up the Web with images. -
WINDOWS 95
32-bit pre-emptive multitasking made possible everything that has come along for the desktop since ' including the graphical Internet and Mac OS X -
LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL
The universal administrative assistant (mostly in the form of Microsoft Outlook/Exchange) for the cubicled middle rank ' and a nursemaid for their bosses. -
IPV6
The newest set of protocols makes tomorrow's online dreams possible -
WIKIS
A wiki is a Web page that can be viewed and modified by anybody with a Web browser and access to the Internet. -
JAVA
Write once, run all over the Web. -
APACHE WEB SERVER
The reliable workhorse of the Web -
MP3 AUDIO FORMAT
A file format that pretty much leveled an entire industry ' and movies are next. -
BROADBAND
Cable and Digital Subscriber Lines start to make an appearance in homes, and telecommuting becomes a real option. -
GOOGLE
We'd call it the portal to the Web, except portals aren't this easy to use. The search bar is rapidly becoming the sippy cup of culture ' with more than partial thanks to Wikipedia, Google's query shortstop. -
EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE
Data that tells us what our data is. But this data is in brackets, so we know what it means, more or less. -
WI-FI
The network computer Libre! BLACKBERRY: Life support for your government executive, with its push technology making the difference. -
VIRTUALIZATION FOR X86 ARCHITECTURES
the facility that allows multiple operating systems to simultaneously share x86 processor resources in a safe and efficient manner -
OPEN SSH
Telneting securely, saving untold fortunes in KVM switches.
