| Thanks! You caught some ones I missed, so here are some edits and responses to your list: 1. I didn't mean to put "container" in front of quantum computing. 2. I didn't mention history of certs or encryption, as I think that security is often a feeling rather than a reality. I'm not sure that "HTTPS everywhere" plugin and then movement in early 2000s was innovation more than it was tightening up security after Firesheep. 3. Yes, I should've included WebSockets over long polling in Early 2010s. 4. Yes, RSS mattered- 1999/Early 2000s. 5. I probably shouldn't have mentioned OOP, etc. as I didn't mean for methodology to matter, since it doesn't matter to users. Similarly debugging tools don't matter for innovations that users see. 6. Yes, fluid layout, grid layout, and responsive design in Late 2000s (though Audi had responsive in 2001). 7. jQuery/MooTools/Prototype, Bootstrap/CanMVC, Angular/React - none of the implementation details of these things matter. The only things that matter are how things appear to the user- like whether a page has a clunky refresh or smooth transition and whether things update automatically when they are changed elsewhere. Also, Applets, Flash, frames, and the move to JS all screwed the visually impaired. 8. Cookies mattered because they were used to track users in ways they didn't want to be tracked. People disabling JS for a while mattered. US announcing Java was insecure mattered. Flash and Flash being abandoned mattered. 9. Forgot to mention frames in Mid/Late 1990s. 10. As you mentioned oAuth, SSO becoming a big deal in the Late 2000s with Facebook, Google. And I should have mentioned blogging, microblogging, move of much of the web to Facebook, Tor/private web, peer sharing and impact on music industry as well as impact on the value of well-created data and applications vs. the value of constantly creating data and making data available and clear. Despite all of the things I missed, the point is that the things that really matter aren't new libraries and frameworks- they are technology and how the world uses it. If a user can't tell a positive difference between something you were doing 5 years ago and today, then you didn't really innovate. |