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Invention timeline
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Wikipedia is founded
On January 15, 2001, Wells, along with Larry Sanger and others, founded Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia that quickly queries and processes all the most recent information, and that anyone can dig deep into the data to make it easier for visitors to see the entries -
Skype released
As VoIP went mainstream, a variety of social software came along, including the popular Skype offering a user-friendly voice over IP. -
Digg's creation
Digg is a technology-focused news site founded by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson and launched in November 2004. Users can submit news to Digg, which is displayed on the front page of digg through the Digg mechanism.Digg has revolutionized traditional ways of discovering and generating web content -
The first generation of the iphone
On January 9, 2007, Jobs announced the launch of the first iPhone at Apple's Annual Worldwide Conference for Software Developers in San Francisco.The shock it brings to the world is unprecedented, it has brought a touch revolution to the entire mobile phone industry!The operating system that led the design trend and determined the foundation of the subsequent IOS ecosystem! -
IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer is completed
The Roadrunner is the first computer to reach a sustained performance of 1 petaflop (one thousand trillion floating point operations per second). It used two different microprocessors: an IBM POWER XCell L8i and AMD Opteron. It was used to model the decay of the US nuclear arsenal, analyze financial data, and render 3D medical images in real-time. An offshoot of the POWER XCell8i chip was used as the main processor in the Sony PlayStation 3 game console.
