The things that happened in the 30 years I’m around on this ball o' mud, in roughly chronological order:
- The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War
- The end of border checks within Europe
- Two expansions of the European Union
- The Internet moving from curiosity to being ubiquitous, and grander than anything cyber-prefixed could ever have been
- 9/11
- The Euro
- Germany’s first involvement in military action as a combatant since WW2 in the Bosnia War
- Mobile phones becoming as ubiquitous as the Internet, if not more so
- The rise and fall of EPOC/Palm
- 9 versions of the Windows OS (From 3.11 to NT to Windows 7)
- Linux becoming less picky about who its friends are (thanks, Canonical!)
- The rise of the Chinese Dragon
- Making friends all over the world (Hi, folks!)
- Live shows on the internet that I watch every day (Hi, TWiT.TV!)
A happy birthday indeed.
