Don't you mean 386DX? The SX was only a 16-bit chip like the 286. The SX in the P/N was often thought to have been an abbreviation for sucks! The performance of the 386SX was quite a bit slower than the full fledged 386DX chip. Although Intel sold a ton of them due to their lower cost.

What about the AMD Opteron 240?
That was the CPU that brought all us in the 64bit computing area.
Without it we would still have 32bit capabilities.
It even forced Intel into adopting 64bit.
This chip probably had the biggest impact on computing since the 386sx surfaced.

What about the Internet itself? That changed a lot too....
Some of the products you list are rather poor compared to other stuff.

Word 2.0 and no MacWrite? No Mac at all? No PowerBook or ThinkPad (or, specifically, the butterfly keyboard design) but the X1? No Video Toaster? 

I think the iPod was evolutionary, and not a wow, but the Rio PMP or Nomad Jukebox would certainly fit the bill.

The Palm was the first PDA that made sense to me, and Graffiti gives it a definite edge as you say, but surely the Newton, or earlier PDAs, were the wow bunch. If you use your rubric for inclusion, then the stunning Palm V seems to be the best choice.

I can't fathom half of the choices for this list, especially over products that are indirectly (or, in the case of Word 2.0, DIRECTLY) referenced.

You've missed something every geek who's any geek would have on the TOP of his (or her) list!!!!

The Coffee Maker!

Without coffee, none of these great things would have come to fruition!

Or better yet, an espresso machine...

Here are some things that would make me dribble if they were released in the next 10 years:

* real-time video processing software (and the hardware to go with it)

* AI that actually works!

* couriers that work past 5:00 pm and at weekends

* Neural interface (read my mind!)

* Hi-def video glasses to go with the neural interface

* Real-time language translation: speech in + out

* batteries that will run my laptop for a couple of days non-stop

* broadcast usenet 

* 1TB removable storage (lose all your files on one CD-ROM!)

* a useful household robot (if it can't make coffee, well ....)

1) The Sinclair Spectrum
2) The BBC Micro
3) Elite, for the above.
4) The ARM processor
5) Fidonet
6) GNU/Linux - Debian and Ubuntu anyway.
7) The AMD Athlon - shame it didn't fit the BX6
8) 3DFX Voodoo Graphics.
9) Quake series.
10) Opteron

Wowl.. and I didn't mention PDP-11s, Crays, or Cambridge workstations once, or the Calrec Soundfiield Microphone.

..Oops.

You mention a banana and a blackberry, but some other fruit seems to be missing from your list.

would be unreasonably hard. From the top of my head, let's see, the ipod? No, it didn't really do anything any other mp3 player didn't already do, unless beveled edges is a feature... The... wait, I got something, The...The

Oh yeah, the Nintendo DS.

-pretty short list....

The Voodoo 2 or iPod (Gen 1) could also probably be thrown in there.

ceedee, don't you get it, there aint anything good this decade.
I remember the only time I ever brought anything from PCWorld, and that was the palm pilot at full retail too. If you had lived a technological life over the last 20 years, you would realise this is a good list.

i agree with this list. especially since i own one of them the latitude x1!

Really?

... of Yesteryear! 

How about writing the same kind of story for THIS decade?

;-)