My first column for Tech Decisions was in the summer of 1999. It wasn’t called Trends & Technology back then but the gist was the same: What is happening in technology and how those changes affect our lives and the way we do business.

In 1999 Y2K issues were occupying a great deal of our time. It was the last good time to be a COBOL programmer, although most of us were trying to hide that skill and leave all that legacy stuff behind. The Internet had arrived—Google was founded in 1998. Silicon Valley was booming and the dot-com bust was a year away. The harsh reality though was that the dot-com boom occurred a few years before business and technology were fully ready to embrace the Internet and e-Commerce. The bust was inevitable but the Internet promised years of interesting work for developers.

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