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USB Flash Drive
While the USB flash drive was patented in 1999 by Israeli company M-Systems, it wasn’t until 2000 that the first USB flash drive was sold in the U.S. by IBM. Called the Disk On Key, the USB held only eight megabytes. -
Camera Phones ;)
In 2000, camera phones officially became commercially available. While a number of big electronics companies began rolling out their own versions, Sharp’s J-SH04 was the first to the market. With a CCD sensor, the phone let users take images on the go and had a “Sha Mail” infrastructure, also known today as MMS -
Blu-ray Disc
Two decades after the CD-ROM and a decade after the DVD came the Blu-ray disc, launched in 2002. The Blu-ray disc supported the world’s new high-definition video demands, with greater storage capacity and higher quality videos. While Blu-ray discs might be a relic of the past, they foreshadowed the high-definition formats that we see today. -
YouTube T_T
Having formerly met at PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim worked together to create what is today the world’s largest video sharing website, YouTube. Launched in 2005, the first YouTube video to be uploaded online was of Karim at the San Diego Zoo. Today, YouTube has more than a billion users. -
The very first IPHONE!!
In early 2007, Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in San Francisco and revealed a “revolutionary product” -- the iPhone. The smartphone that changed the way the public looked at phones was a three-in-one product, as Jobs described: “a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device.”