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Read from a copy of the chart titled 'Gartner 2001 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies' / 'Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2001' on Pinterest (628x407 GIF, same pin series as 1996 to 2007). Gartner document 334359 '2001 Hype Cycle of Emerging Trends and Technologies', 2 July 2001, analysts Kevin Haley, Jackie Fenn, Alexander Linden; its summary names Web Services, m-commerce, instant messaging for enterprises, PDA phones and digital signatures at the peak, which matches the chart. Legend 'Time-to-plateau': white less than two years, yellow 2 to 5, red 5 to 10; no marker for more than 10 years. 19 markers, 19 labels. rank is the order along the curve, left to right. Bands read from the markers.
Personal Fuel Cells: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 1gartner-hype-cycle-2001-001
Head Mounted Displays: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 2gartner-hype-cycle-2001-002
Semantic Web: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 3gartner-hype-cycle-2001-003
Synthetic Characters: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
PDA phones: peak, plateau in 2-5 years
peak · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 5gartner-hype-cycle-2001-005
Web Services: peak, plateau in 2-5 years
peak · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 6gartner-hype-cycle-2001-006
Enterprise Instant Messaging: peak, plateau in <2 years
peak · plateau <2 yrs · rank 7gartner-hype-cycle-2001-007
M-Commerce: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 8gartner-hype-cycle-2001-008
Digital Signatures: peak, plateau in 2-5 years
peak · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 9gartner-hype-cycle-2001-009
Wireless Web/WAP: trough, plateau in 2-5 years
trough · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 11gartner-hype-cycle-2001-011
B2B E-Markets: trough, plateau in 5-10 years
trough · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 12gartner-hype-cycle-2001-012
Bluetooth: trough, plateau in 2-5 years
trough · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 14gartner-hype-cycle-2001-014
B2C E-Business: trough, plateau in 5-10 years
trough · plateau 5-10 yrs · rank 15gartner-hype-cycle-2001-015
E-Payments: trough, plateau in 2-5 years
trough · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 16gartner-hype-cycle-2001-016
Voice Over IP: slope, plateau in 2-5 years
slope · plateau 2-5 yrs · rank 17gartner-hype-cycle-2001-017
Enterprise Portals: slope, plateau in <2 years
slope · plateau <2 yrs · rank 18gartner-hype-cycle-2001-018
Wireless LANs/802.11: slope, plateau in <2 years
slope · plateau <2 yrs · rank 19gartner-hype-cycle-2001-019