2000-2010 Timeline

  • USB Flash Drive

    USB Flash Drive
    Inventor- Dov Morin
    USB Flash drives were initially sold by the company Trek in Singapore in early 2000. IBM then started selling USB Flash drives in late 2000. They had an initial storage capacity of only 8 MB.
  • iTunes

    iTunes
    Inventor - Steve Jobs
    iTunes was initially released as a simple means of playing music by recording CD's. By 2003, iTunes Music Store released and people were able to buy and download songs to their computers.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Inventors- Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley
    Youtube was invented by 3 former PayPal employees and was initially released as a video-profile dating site. By the end of 2005, it was remarketed as a free video hosting platform and 18 months later was bought by Google.
  • Wii

    Wii
    Inventor- Nintendo
    The Nintendo Wii was released in 2006 and was considered the newest innovation of gaming at the time. It allowed players to get physically invloved with games such as JustDance and Mario Kart. They sold over 100 million units.
  • Kindle

    Kindle
    Inventor -Amazon
    The Kindle first released in 2007 and was invented by Jeff Bezos. It was the first modern e-reader to be released. When it first released, it sold out in 5 hours and remained out of stock until late 2008.