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With the '00s coming to an end, I thought it would be fun to look back at 10 year ago.

10 years ago...

... I had just sold CrossPaths - my dialup ISP - to Lighthouse Communications earlier in the month, Dottie Lu was my office manager, and I was in the process of hiring Phil to help me grow the company further.

... The CrossPaths website looked like this:  http://web.archive.org/web/19991128145512/http://crosspaths.net/ and it looked good for the time, darn it!

... 56K was just starting to be widely available.

... I had never blogged.

... I didn't own a digital camera.

... I didn't own a traditional camera.

... Photography wasn't even a hobby of mine.

... I had not yet gone on my first (of many) trips to Mexico with the family.

... I didn't have an MP3 player (though I did have a handful of MP3s on my computer by that point).

... I didn't own the domain jasoncross.com yet.

... I was living in an apartment with Ian, and I was in the process of closing on the purchase of my first house.

... 256MB of RAM was a LOT of RAM and cost ~$250.

... 80GB of hard drive space was HUGE and cost ~$400.

... Windows98 Second Edition was the standard OS.  Windows Me had not yet started its short run, and Windows XP was still 1.5 years away.

... I was assuming that if Y2K turned out to be pretty bad, I'd be out of a career having few non-technical skills at the time.

... My nephew Nate was just born and my nephew Sebastian was 2.

... The Palm Pilot IIIe was cutting edge and email on a portable device other than a laptop with a dialup modem was pretty much unheard of.

... None of my friends were yet married, and now nearly all of them are.

... I was still 4.5 years away from meeting my future wife.

Living day to day, it's easy to forget how much things actually change in a relatively short period of time.  Writing this list reminded me of an article I wrote for my old column in the Des Moines Register.  It's called Velocitized and it can be read by clicking this link, but here's an excerpt:

Happy 2010 Everyone!