Never heard of seam carving before. Not sure if it's used anywhere, but what a fun idea it is! Lepton is interesting (as is brotli), although it doesn't quite

Never heard of seam carving before. Not sure if it's used anywhere, but what a fun idea it is! Lepton is interesting (as is brotli), although it doesn't quite rise to the level of "opening gates to new worlds" that the innovations around 2000 did. Virtual machines were funny in that they implemented an idea from mid-century mathematical logic, but VMWare was founded in 1998 and cygwin (not quite virtual machines but similar) is even older. Oh yeah, lots of innovation in spam, social engineering and trolling, but that's not computing per se :) Well aware of the march of big data and "quantity becoming quality"-based services over the last 20 years. But Google Earth and Wikipedia started in 2001, and everything that came thereafter would mostly be less exciting and more closed-down. OpenStreetMap deserves a mention, not for innovation but for stealing the fire from the gods. Windy.com is a fresh breeze, too; good point. Never found DropBox exciting. Even git, which I love and use for 3 different purposes every day, just doesn't feel particularly novel. Maybe that's because torrenting (with all its deduplication, hash-indexing and various other innovations) had set my expectations so high long ago that everything that came after looked like the Dark Ages. Drones... now these are some new grounds. In hindsight, I feel stupid forgetting them in my comment above!