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Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the counting-them-down dept.

HarvardAce writes "CNN has just released a list of 24 of the top 25 innovations of the past 25 years. Most of them are things we use every day in life, such as cell phones (#2), PCs (#3), and e-mail (#5). CNN won't release the #1 innovation until Sunday, January 18 at 8pm EST (Monday, Jan 19 @ 1AM GMT), so I wanted to see if Slashdot users could come up with what they think the #1 innovation is and comment on the rest of the list."

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  1. #1 will be... by waynegoode · · Score: 5, Insightful

    #1 will be The World Wide Web/The Internet.

  2. #1 will be search engines by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    #1 will be search engines - google, yahoo, etc.

    They make the web, newgroups, etc useful.

    "Google it" :-)

  3. Read the article by Dean+Edmonds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They don't say that these innovations were created in the last 25 years, just that they "have become widely used since 1980".

    The net most certainly falls into that category.

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    -deane