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Earth Simulator, Japanese government. A supercomputer which ran climate change models and was known as the world’s fastest supercomputer until 2004. -
Youtube, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Youtube created a platform for free video sharing through the internet. -
iPhone, Steve Jobs. The iPhone was a smartphone which included music, internet and mobile phone capabilities. Laid the foundation for modern smartphones and introduced the app store one year later. -
Kindle Jason Merkoski. The kindle is an ereader which allowed the public to browse, download, and read books electronically. It was the first ereader which gained major popularity. -
IBM Roadrunner.The first supercomputer to break the petaFLOP barrier. Floating point operation per second (FLOP) is a unit of measure for computer power and speed. A petaFLOP is one quadrillion calculations per second.