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  • USB Flash Drive (2000)

    USB Flash Drive (2000)
    Inventor: Dov Moran Description: Data storage devices that includes flash memory that has a USB interface. Can be inserted and removed from a computer, and is much smaller than an optical disk.

  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X
    Inventor: Steve Jobs Description: Apple’s Macintosh operating system that competes directly with Microsoft’s Windows. Introduced a more stable and reliable platform where multiple applications could run more efficiently at the same time.

  • Windows XP

    Windows XP
    Inventor: Microsoft Description: Microsoft’s operating system that allows to use of different types of applications or software.

  • Blu-Ray Optical Disk (2003)

    Blu-Ray Optical Disk (2003)
    Inventor: Blue-Ray Disk Association Description: An optical disc format designed to display high definition video and sore larger amounts of data. Intended to be the successor to DVDs and designed to play videos at 1080p, rather than the 480p resolution found on regular DVDs.

  • 1 TB Hard Disk Drive (2007)

    1 TB Hard Disk Drive (2007)
    Inventor: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Description: Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 was the world’s first 1TB HDD. At the time, the world’s first HDD had a storage capacity of 3.75 MB, making the Deskstar have over 300,000x the amount of storage, while also being many times smaller.