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THE NOUGHTIES:IN THE ALWAYS hyper-fast world of technology, the noughties were all about the “i”. That’s “i” as in internet. In the past decade, we stuck it in front of products, services and new technologies with abandon. If the 1990s was the decade of the dot – as in dot.com, specifying a web address – the noughties embraced the “i” of the internet as a whole concept, a place in which we worked, played, communicated and – more than ever before thanks to more computing power and internet bandwidth – interacted, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

Indeed, most of what happened in technology over the past 10 years has revolved around the internet – if not an actual service offered over it, or content to be viewed or posted on a website, then a device that interacts with it. Perhaps no single technology (or rather, loose, unregulated, wild west conglomeration of technologies) has and continues to have as much influence on where we have come from at the start of the decade, where we are now, and where we are to go in the future.