KEY POINTS:
The good thing about tech folk is our tendency to do things that other, saner, people wouldn't even think of.
In fits of java-fuelled over enthusiasm, we do some strange stuff.
Like accumulate thousands of applications that, at the time, were 'must-haves'. Most of them live on DVD-Rs and have never even been used. Ever locating them again is unlikely, if not impossible.
The boxes of hard drives, aging PCI cards and remote controls to unknown electronics are easier to find - they're either in the hall cupboard or under the bed.
But finding your way through the whole tech world is far easier said than done.
Mergers and acquisitions fly past quicker than an overclocked Centrino, and everytime someone from Google pulls out a credit card, everything changes and what you thought you knew becomes totally wrong.
Fortunately some nice blokes at Information Architects have attempted the tech equivalent of the Coast to Coast, and mapped the world of web trends.
Designed along the lines of a subway map, IA follows the 200 most successful sites on the web. It's an amazing undertaking, organised by category, popularity and more.
Another beauty of technomapping is the map of online communities which, although not as scientific or time-consuming as IA's web trends colossus, is an absolute work of art.
