A quote about the year: "The Internet is the printing press of the technology era." — Jim Barksdale, then-CEO of Netscape.

A quote about the year: "Motorola's StarTac ST7867W is small, light, and loaded with features.

A quote about the year: "I lost my fighting spirit." — Kasparov as quoted in The New York Times.

Top films of the year: Titanic, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Men in Black.

A quote about the year: "The Internet-age computer for the rest of us." — Apple CEO Steve Jobs announcing the new iMac.

A quote about the year: "The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño, and there will be nasty surprises around the globe." — United States Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.

Top films of the year: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense and Toy Story 2.

A quote about the year: ''The online retail space is the last place investors want to be today.'' — Jupiter Research analyst Ken Cassar as quoted in The New York Times.

A quote about the year: "A thousand songs in your pocket." — Jobs announcing the new iPod.

Top films of the year: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings and Monsters, Inc.

A quote about the year: "Walter [Hewlett] is a good and decent man.

Top films of the year: The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Spider-Man.

A quote about the year: "Friendster grew too fast.

A quote about the year: "We could be cool again." — Former Motorola CEO Ed Zander speaking to CNET about the first Razr in 2006.

Top films of the year: Shrek 2, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban and Spider-Man 2.

A quote about the year: "Right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants, and the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool, and that's pretty much all there is to say." — YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in the site's first video, Me at the Zoo.

Top films of the year: Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

A quote about the year: "We give people tight control over their information.

Top films of the year: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Da Vinci Code and Ice Age: Meltdown.

Top films of the year: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Spider-Man 3.

Top films of the year: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Kung Fu Panda.

Top films of the year: Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs .

Top films of the year: Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 .

Top films of the year: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides .

A quote about the year: "People ask me all the time, 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google.

Top films of the year: The Avengers, Skyfall and The Dark Knight Rises 

Top films of the year: Frozen, Iron Man 3 and Despicable Me 2

A quote about the year: "The hacking into Sony Pictures might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers with the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]." — A North Korean spokesman for North Korea in a statement after the Sony hack

Top films of the year: Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and Guardians of the Galaxy

A quote about the year: "I have told my story, and thousands of people have heard it." — Ellen Pao, after she lost her gender discrimination case

Top films of the year: Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Furious 7

A quote about the year: "None of will forget what happened this year

Top films of the year: Captain America: Civil War, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Finding Dory

Top films of the year: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast and The Fate of the Furious 

Top films of the year: Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Top films of the year: Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King and Frozen 2