Pawing back through the archives, I can confidently declare that 2002 was the summer of the VLJ—the very light jet. Some were practically swooning over the notion of sub-$1 million jets and there was a thundering herd of them, led by the rock star of VLJs, the Eclipse.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/subsonex-the-second-coming-of-the-microjet