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Just as an angle to answering the question (I don't have answers of my own).... What was the most interesting CS field(s) in 2008, 98, 88, etc?

• nailer 8y ago
  88 (taking a stab here as I was pretty young): DTP OO RISC CPUs 'graphics' (as in render farms) 98: Linux, Apache, Mozilla, OSS in general Perceptual audio compression : MP3 (layer3.org, MP3 vs TwinVQ, codecs created during the period before Fraunhofer announced the source code it uploaded to ISO without a license and that people had been working on for free, in fact had a license and everyone owed them 10 grand). 2008: Cloud mobile (location in particular). Think Foursquare vs Gowalla vs Burbn, Grindr, other early mobile location-aware apps. App stores for popularised by Apple that same year. AJAX, Rails blogging.
  • neilwilson 8y ago
    88 OSI network stacks. They were going to replace the 'old' Internet protocols. Relational Databases, SQL and two phase commit. Formal methods and verification.
    • sitkack 8y ago
      > Formal methods and verification. Still emerging.