Wow, what a year. And to commemorate just one more time, Light Reading presents the best of our Top Ten Lists of 2005 -- a little one stop shop for all the highlights of the year that was.

As the new year begins, we've all earned a little room to look back at the ups-and-downs of 2005. Enjoy! But don't get too cozy. Until there's a chicken in every pot, 100 Mbit/s to every modem, and "3G" becomes something more than a bingo coordinate, then there's still much work yet to be done.

• 2005 Top Ten: Notable Quotes
  Insightful, esoteric, delightful! These are the top items from the past year's Quotes of the Week
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Heavy Findings
  Heavy Reading presents its most notable research findings
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: M&A
  Billions and billions of dollars in deals... Did you even notice all of them?
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Photos
  Photos that you might remember or might not want to remember
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Signs of Recovery
  We still see positive signs aplenty as the telecom biz goes from survival mode to, well, something else
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Monkey Business
  The top ten quotes from the Light Reading message boards
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Blog Posts
  Offensive, defensive, hilarious, and pensive -- it's the best posts from Light Reading's blogs
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Stock Gains and Pains
  The annual look at the top winners and losers among telecom-related stocks
  
  

• 2005 Top Ten: Top Tens
  Here's the story you're reading right now. Oh, if only Kurt Gödel could see us now. He'd be so proud
  
  

— The Staff, Light Reading