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by dalbasal 2875 days ago
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?

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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.

88

OSI network stacks. They were going to replace the 'old' Internet protocols.

Relational Databases, SQL and two phase commit.

Formal methods and verification.

> Formal methods and verification.

Still emerging.