This list comes from Cnet.com and is the top 10 downloads from the past decade.

1. ICQ
2. Winamp
3. Napster
4. Firefox
5. WinZip
6. iTunes
7. Ad-aware
8. Skype
9. RealPlayer
10. Adobe Acrobsat Reader

While most of these are choices that I would not argue with, I do have to take issue with Napster being #3.  Considering the backlash from the music community and the subsequent lawsuits, Napster is a bit of a black mark.  In my opinion, to be on this list, the download should be one that introduced something new to the internet and had enough staying power to be useful and popular to the present day.  Napster’s concept was improved by iTunes.

So what’s to come?  What’s the next big thing for the internet?  What will become world wide necessities during the next decade?  Will live video streaming services be the next big thing we think of as not that uncommon in the year 2020?  Time will tell.