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2000: Ten years of NetworkWorld.com

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Oct 31, 20051 min

 

The Y2K crash never happened, but in April, the stock market did crash, signalling the beginning of the end ofthe dotcom boom and spelling growing headaches for certain large vendors and carriers, such as MCI WorldCom and AT&T. Meanwhile, by year’s end, only three of the original RBOCs remained, as former upstart Qwest bought out US West (and Bell Atlantic took over GTE)

 
Judge orders Microsoft breakup

Ah, yes, Judge Thomas Penfield. He may have won the anti-trust battle, but Microsoft won the war.

CEO chops Cabletron into four chunks

Riverstone Networks, Enterasys Networks, Global Network Technology Services and Aprisma Management Technologies.

Web attackers run roughshod

This was the year major e-commerce sites first felt the wrath of zombie nets.

Big changes brewing for 3Com

First it spun off Palm, then it got out of enterprise networking.

AT&T’s split decision

C. Michael Armstrong stumbles.

Other stuff

Y2 K arrives and … nothing happens

Mi crosoft ships Windows 2000

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Screen grab of the site in 2000 (click to enlarge – popup)

Year that start ups were launched that went on to be household names

  • Avaya (spinoff from Lucent)
 

Riding the wave

NetworkWorld.com has grown with industry over ten years as …