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  Top Ten Stories of 1998

Top ten technology stories
  

Nineteen ninety-eight was a big year for the underdog. Steve Jobs returned to Apple, and Apple returned to profitability; Linux made a serious bid for respectability; and everybody and their assistant attorney general took on the biggest billionaire of them all, Bill Gates.

The year brought a few things that we knew were inevitable. The stock market got bigger. More people shopped online. Y2K is now a year closer. And a few things we thought were going to happen didn't quite make it....


  
       1   The Return of Apple
       2   E-Commerce
       3   Net Stock Mania
       4   Cell Phones Go Mainstream
       5   The Microsoft Antitrust Trial
       6   The Rise of Linux
       7   The Rise of the Portal
       8   Y2K
       9   The Starr Report Hits the Internet
       10   What Didn't Happen