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A decade is a long time in computer circles, especially when you figure that there’s only been five or six of them in the whole history of computing. XML has gone from being a “standard” that perhaps a couple dozen people worldwide knew about to a pervasive technology that is so well entrenched that many people don’t really even think much about it any more. We argue about the XMLification of word processing and spreadsheet programs, we debate whether Atom or RSS 2.0 will predominate, we shake our heads at the whole notion of web services and how the dominant web services protocol was designed largely by bloggers to let people know about their websites.