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.
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.