OK, I admit that this is really not a design post, but I am interested in your comments as to what the biggest tech, social and overall story was for the past decade. Let me take you back a while and help jog your mind.

In somewhat chronological order here are some bullet points on what went on in the past decade. Sorry if these are more U.S. Centric, but you get what you pay for. In the end, post comments as to what you think were the top stories of this decade. I am interested in your thoughts, not just politically, but also tech-wise.

1. Y2K or Bust
2. Tech stock bubble bursts
3. USS Cole is attacked
4. Human genome deciphered
5. Mad Cow Disease
6. NEAR spacecraft becomes first to orbit an asteroid
7. “I Love You” computer virus
8. 2000 Election (the year of the hanging chad)
9. 9/11
10. iPod debuts
11. 3 megapixel cameras
12. I.R.A. Disarms
13. U.S. attacks Afghanistan
14. Anthrax
15. Enron
16. Shoe bomber
17. U.S. attack Iraq
18. D.C. Sniper
19. Saddam Hussein Captured
20. Space Shuttle Columbia explodes on re-entry
21. Spain terrorist attack
22. Google goes public
23. WiFi
24. Olympics return to Greece
25. Water on Mars
26. SpaceShipOne
27. Pope John Paul II Dies
28. Web 2.0
29. iPhone
30. Hurricane Katrina
31. HDTV conversion
32. Mars rovers land on Mars
33. Saddam Hussein convicted and hung
34. Green Movement
35. Hybrid vehicles
36. Facebook and Myspace
37. Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft as CEO
38. Pluto loses its status as a planet
39. Cloud computing
40. HD-DVD vs Blu-ray
41. Bejing Olympics
42. Twitter
43. HDTV conversion 2
44. Housing bubble-Credit crunch
45. Barack Obama elected president
46. Stock market crash, DOW to 6,547
47. HDTV conversion 3- . . .
48. M.J. no more
49. H1N1
50. Hubble repaired for last time
51. Water on the moon

Remember to post a comment of your thoughts.