Historical climbs in Yosemite - 1994 and later
(posted on supertopo forum 9/29/2010)

1994: The Shaft 99% freed - by far the hardest route on El Cap for many years
1994: Lurking Fear 95% freed
1995: Alex Huber repeats the Salathe' free (via his variations). Prior to this, some people had difficulty believing Skinner and Piana had freed it in 1988 (they were way ahead of their time)
1995: How the West Was Won
1995: Mecca development started, with routes like The Peasant, Empire, Counterparts.
1995: Galactic Hitchhiker. Although it followed existing routes for more than halfway, it may have been one of the first "slab big walls" with hauling on a slab. Also interesting because the FA guys did not expect it to be repeated in a day.
1997: Magic Line 5.14b crack w/ preplaced gear, unrepeated
1998: Alex and Thomas Huber establish Freerider and El Nino to start their string of El Cap free routes
1998: El Cap Girdle Traverse, 75 pitches
1998-99: Eric Gabel and friends do several new routes in the Hawkman's Escape area
1999: Mt. Watkins South Face freed, Escape From Freedom freed
2000: Golden Gate
2000: Lurking Fear 100% freed
2000: Sean Jones and friends do several new routes in the upper Ribbon Falls Amphitheater
2001: El Corazon
2002: The Quantum Mechanic, Washington Column South Face freed, Gates of Delerium, The Twisted Road, Quo Vadis
2003: Zodiac freed, El Cap West Buttress freed
2004: Dihedral Wall freed
2004: Milestone (Basket Dome)
2004: Arrowhead Arete East Wall, Camp Four Terror Free, Elephant Man (Cedar Wright, Lucho Rivera, Renan Ozturk)
2004-05: Flying in the Mountains, Homeword (Parkline Slab)
2005: L'Appat
2007: preMuir
2007: Arcturus freed
2007-09: Eric Gabel and friends establish many new routes at Reed's
2008: Magic Mushroom freed
2008: The Secret Passage
2009: Border Country

Freerider is the most significant route of the period - it is accessible to the top climbers, but still a big challenge.

Another popular new development is doing El Cap and Half Dome aid routes in under 24 hours.

I don't count free solos or Nose speed records - those styles are not accessible to very many people.
Although they definitely demonstrate an amazing level of mastery for climbers like Yuji, Hans, Dean, Timmy, the Hubers, and Alex.