The Top 10 Tech Stories of 1998

From TIME Digital: The Year in Review, from the online release of the Starr report to those crazy Internet stocks

By Nathaniel Wice Monday, Dec. 28, 1998

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. Nevertheless, a few promises of better living, like digital TV and high-speed home access to the Internet, still aren't ready for prime time. Click through to see why America Online's purchase of Netscape, though included, didn't even rate a Top 10 listing.