Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com

Happy birthday, silicon.com - your favourite business and technology publication is 10 years old.

Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print dinosaurs it has now replaced - the publication weathered the storms following the dot-com boom to take its place as the leading destination for execs who want to know how to drive business through technology.

silicon.com Classics

Want the best of silicon.com from the past 10 years? Look no further…

1. The best of Google Earth

2. Digital Blunders

3. A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side

4. 10 weird uses for an iPod

5. 10 hard drive disasters

6. The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain

7. 30 tips for better business travel

8. The Peeping Tom phone filter

9. 'Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply?

10. The 10 craziest uses of RFID

Can't remember what was happening in July 1998? Well, here're a few reminders.

Billie Piper was at the top of the charts with 'Because we want to', while top albums included The Corrs Talk on Corners and Beastie Boys Hello Nasty. The top film was Six Days and Seven Nights, and the day before silicon.com launched into the unknown, Japan launched a probe to Mars. Just a week later France defeated Brazil 3-0 to win the 1998 World Cup.

silicon.com's editor Steve Ranger said: "It's a great milestone for us to hit. There's been a huge amount of change in the industry in the past 10 years and we've been here to chronicle it all - and I'm sure there's plenty more excitement to come."

But just because we've hit 10, it doesn't mean we're running out of steam - already this year we've unveiled our new Tech Hotspots project and the CIO50 2008, with plenty more to come in the rest of the year.

Click here for more on how it all began…