Ten Years Since Y2K

Submitted by Anita on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:00pm

It's hard to believe it's been a full 10 years since January 2000, when we were all celebrating our successful efforts to outwit the much-feared Y2K computer bug. The computer industry has only grown (and grown!) since then, with Internet giants like Google and Wikipedia becoming everyday parts of our lives.

For more on the history of the Internet—and of the last 10 years—pick up Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World As We Know It or Randall Stross' Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know and find out how Google went from a simple research project (14 years ago this month) to the global superpower it is today.