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1st camera phone
Brought to market by SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate. -
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The Aughts
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Fastest supercomputer
Earth Simulator was the fastest supercomputer from 2002-2004. It is located in Japan, and used to create global weather models. -
First true 64 bit PC released
Side note: Virginia Tech used ~1000 of these to create a supercomputer that ranked #3 in the world that November. -
Bless the makers
This was the first iteration of the Arduino board. It was the size of a credit card, but was used to help start the "maker" revolution. -
The Roadrunner supercomputer
This particular supercomputer had a beefed up Playstation 3 microprocessor, that when paired with an AMD chip allowed for a sustained performance of 1 petaflop. The first computer ever to do that.