Happy Birthday to Yahoo!, which is celebrating its 10th birthday with not only a big Yahoo!, but a “Netrospective.”

“What the yahoo is a Netrospective?” you may ask.

Apparently, it’s a cute play on words - a retrospective with respect to the Internet. In this case, Yahoo!’s Netrospective is a survey of the top 100… something. Based on Jonathan Harris’ 10×10 news site, the Yahoo! Netrospective offers a 10×10 grid of 100 pictures, each of which are linked to an Internet event or phenomena from the past ten years, and apparently picked at least in part by determining the top 100 search terms.

Interestingly, these feature many Internet nasties, including spam, viruses, hackers, domain jacking, browser wars, and sex…

[Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday Netrospective - Spam, File Sharing, Minor Threat, and More, continued]

We thought Yahoo! Inc.’s 10th birthday would be a great excuse to take a look back and think about how the Internet has developed over the last ten years, becoming an essential part of all of our daily lives. We’ve created a special site, Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, which celebrates the web’s history over the last decade. We hope the Yahoo! Netrospective will take you on a trip down memory lane, in a format we think is really cool.

All of us at Yahoo! are already working on the next 10 years and are certain that over the next decade Yahoo! will be even more exciting, more innovation-filled, and even more essential to you, our users.

It has been a great ride, and you know what? We think the best is yet to come.