2000's Tech Timeline

Tony Fadell and Steve Jobs created the iPod and showcased it in 2001 a few months after iTunes. Without the iPod, Apple probably wouldn't be the powerhouse it is today, which could have stagnated competitors to not improve as much as they did. Many innovations come as responses to competitor's releases.

Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. Skype was a game changer for many people as it became the standard for anyone video messaging. Skype was so vastly used that it became a verb to describe video chatting for quite sometime and changed.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in his college dorm. It began only being available for other Harvard students but eventually grew into what we see today. Facebook greatly influenced future social media and shaped much of internet culture today.

Created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. YouTube changed everything about sharing videos online and one could argue vastly influenced and continues to influence internet culture throughout it's lifetime. Various things in internet culture and social media platforms would not and probably could not exist without YouTube's presence.

Game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda and Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. Nintendo Wii was one of the early consoles to really place motion control to the forefront of gaming. Everything that came after, Switch, Wii U, and competitors versions, were likely inspired or entirely built upon the concept of the Wii despite it's issues. Nothing quite like it existed at the time and all the motion control devices certainly increased after the fact.