2010's 25 Geekiest 25th anniversaries

From Apple's LaserWriter to Stallman's GNU Manifesto and Windows 1.0

Santa isn't the only one who makes a list and checks it twice as the calendar winds down: This morning marks the posting of my fourth edition of the year's 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries.

Here's the introduction and a link to the first slide:

Our fourth annual compilation of the current year's most notable technology-related 25th anniversaries includes Microsoft's release of Windows 1.0, registration of the first dot-com domain names, the founding of AOL, the publication of Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto, and the first fatal attack by the Unabomber. (With a couple of not-so-techie odd-balls tossed in for fun.) The press will revisit many of them one by one over the next 12 months, but here they are today, neatly assembled for your perusal.

For those just tuning in, here's last year's list.

Here's the 2008 version.

And the one that started in all, "2007's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries."

Time flies, all right.

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• AOL
• Apple
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• GNU Manifesto
• Microsoft