2000 to 2010 computer timeline

By D_muse
  • USB Flash drives

    USB Flash drives are used for data storage. It's meant to back up and transfer files amongst numerous of devices. An Israeli company called M-Systems introduced the first flash drive but unsure who was the person that actually invented it.
  • Blu-ray optical disc

    Blu-ray optical disc was a better option than a regular dvd, If you used a Blu-ray disc to watch movies or shows on a dvd player the video graphics would be a lot much more HD than the average digital disc.
  • Hadoop

    Hadoop was a software that Google had developed to extract search results from unstructured data that is found on the internet. A lot of companies were using Hadoop do to the software being cost effective and would break down the process of large data. Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella.
  • Dropbox

    Dropbox is cloud-based service used for storage and accessing files. Everyone would be able to access the files from any device or computers that had Dropbox downloaded. As well as being able to upload the file on the web. Arash Ferdowski and Drew Houston invented Dropbox.
  • Mobile Web hits Mass Market

    This begins with high-speed internet being available to mobile devices. At this time, it was 3G internet available is introduced to all cellphones. Apple creates its own platform for web browsing as Androids are google based for searching for the web.