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In 2001, the first camera phone was invented by Philippe Kahn. The J-SH04 Jmobile phone was a slim device with a front screen, a number pad, and the first front facing camera on the back.
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In the year 2001, Windows XP was released by Microsoft. Windows XP was the an operating system that was used to execute programs and operations on a computer.
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In 2002, Earth Simulator is the fastest world supercomputer built by the Japanese Government. The supercomputer was used to evaluate the effects of global warming.
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In 2005, Doug Cutting developed Hadoop as a way to facilitate a network of computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data. Hadoop had big companies such as Yahoo, IBM, Twitter, American Airlines, which used it to scale from single servers to thousands.
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In 2006, Amazon launched its cloud based services. AWS was a service that allowed users to rent virtual time on the cloud meaning companies didn't have to have complex computing infrastructure on their own.