3. USB(2000)
The USB flash drive is basically that but its more
portable, rewritable, accessible, and, as of right
now, cheaper. Today, storage capacities on a USB
drive can be as large as 256 GB. This is another
tech item that was claimed to have been
invented before the actual time of fruition in
2000. But, USB flash drives are here now and
that’s all that matters to us.
4. Apples Ipod(2001)
Apple’s iPod first debuted on October 23, 2001, when the world
barely knew what an MP3 player was—and here’s Apple, already
revolutionizing the category. Apple is good at setting standards
with their technology—the iPod set a standard for MP3 players
and it still is. Over the past decade the iPod transformed itself
with color, size, screens and capabilities, but more importantly it
has transformed the way we listen to music.
5. Nokia 7650(2002)
Released in early 2002, the Nokia 7650 is
arguably one of the most important phones
ever. Promoted around the film Minority Report,
it brought camera phones to the mainstream
with the help of endorsement deals and heavy
promotion.
6. Skype(2003)
First released in August 2003, Skype was created by the Swede Niklas Zennström and
the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn,
Estonians who developed the backend that was also used in the music-sharing
application Kazaa. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion.[10] In
September 2009,[11] Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan
Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from
eBay, which attributed to the enterprise a market value of $2.92 billion. Microsoft
bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion. Skype division headquarters are in
Luxembourg, but most of the development team and 44% of all the division's
employees are still situated in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia.[12][13][14]
7. Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park,
California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard
College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
The founders initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students. Later they expanded it to
higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook
gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students.
Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of
Facebook, though variations exist in this requirement, depending on local laws. The name comes from the
face book directories often given to American university students. Facebook held its initial public offering
(IPO) in February 2012, valuing the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly listed
Facebook(2004)
8. Youtube(2005)
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was
created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February
2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of
Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and
subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.
Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio
recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos,
and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media
corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of
the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while
registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to videos.
Videos deemed potentially inappropriate are available only to registered users affirming themselves to
9. Wii(2006)
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on
November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competed
with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that
its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. As
of the first quarter of 2012, the Wii lead its generation over the
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales, with more than 101
million units sold; in December 2009, the console broke the sales record
for a single month in the United States.
10. Iphone(2007)
iPhone (/ˈaɪfoʊn/ EYE-fone) is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple
Inc. The iPhone line of products use Apple's iOS mobile operating system software.
The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and multiple new
hardware iterations with new iOS releases have been released since.The user interface
is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard.
The iPhone has Wi-Fi and can connect to cellular networks. An iPhone can shoot video
(though this was not a standard feature until the iPhone 3GS), take photos, play music,
send and receive email, browse the web, send and receive text messages, follow GPS
navigation, record notes, perform mathematical calculations, and receive visual
voicemail. Other functionality, such as video games, reference works, and social
networking, can be enabled by downloading mobile apps. As of January 2017, Apple's
App Store contained more than 2.2 million applications available for the iPhone.
11. Android(2008)
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified
version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for
touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, Google has
further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Wear OS for
wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used
on game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics.
Initially developed by Android Inc., which Google bought in 2005, Android was
unveiled in 2007, with the first commercial Android device launched in September
2008. The operating system has since gone through multiple major releases, with the
current version being 8.1 "Oreo", released in December 2017. The core Android
source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and is primarily licensed
under the Apache License.
12. Whats app(2009)
WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees
of Yahoo!. After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September 2007, the duo traveled to
South America to take a break from work.[11] At one point, they applied for jobs at
Facebook but were rejected.In June 2009, Apple launched push notifications, allowing
users to be pinged when they were not using an app. Koum changed WhatsApp so
that when a user's status is changed, everyone in the user's network would be
notified.[11] WhatsApp 2.0 was released with a messaging component and the
number of active users suddenly increased to 250,000.
13. Ipod(2010)
iPad (/ˈaɪpæd/ EYE-pad) is a line of tablet computers designed,
developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile
operating system. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the
most recent iPad models are the iPad (2018), released on March
27, 2018, the 10.5-inch (270 mm) and 12.9-inch (330 mm) 2G iPad
Pro released on June 13, 2017. The user interface is built around
the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. All
iPads can connect via Wi-Fi; some models also have cellular