- Linux and FreeBSD become analogs to Windows and Mac OS X today, after Microsoft and Apple collapse.
- Anonix gains a rising userbase and talk of the "year of the Anonix desktop" becomes common.
- MIT reinstantiates 6.001 after issuing a final Third Edition of SICP.
- Java and .NET decline in preference to a combination of C, Asm, and very-high-level languages.
- The Eternal September of /prog/ is finally over.