Mac OS X on Intel

Hot new sort-of-language: AJAX

Finally noticing reality, HP bails on Itanium chip design
but continues pushing Itanium servers

Intel quietly introduces IA-32e ( = AMD x84-64)

SCO business ebbs; they try extortion

Interesting new language: Ruby

AMD's x86-64 widely adopted.

Mac OS X (NeXT Mach/FreeBSD/Apple) on all new Macs.

Intel & HP declare "64-bits requires IA-64 Itanium."

HP buys Compaq ... but why?

The Internet wave breaks on the Shores of Reality.

Ogg Stupidname released.

Palm Pilot: smaller, less expensive, "reduced but right" features = success.

Grammys web-cast by Apple; MetaWire assists.

The elegant PERL 4.x language grows flailing 5.x tentacles.

AIX (IBM UNIX) on Apple Network Server.

The Internet wave makes tech buzzwords cool.

Interactive TV: "People want to pay more so they can interrupt the program they're watching to look at a web page."

Computer Literacy bookstores

A/UX (Apple UNIX) on Apple Workgroup Server 95.

Hot new language: Java.

(2 years later)
Newton, brilliant but flawed: too big, too expensive.
     (Oh, and that initial handwriting recognition...)

Pen computers are the wave of the future and they're here now!
Right.

ATT 92020 Hobbit microprocessor.

LaserWriter introduced.

ThunderScan is the low-cost, low-speed competitor.

SmallTalk books by Goldberg, etc. al. published.

Hot new language: C++

Pixels? Business computers don't have pixels.

SCO ports and ships Microsoft's UNIX.

80286 vs 68000 at a blistering 8 MHz; will marketing trump technical elegance?

Consulair C replaces Lisa / cross compile / floppy transport

Hot new language: Ada.