5 significant computer inventions of the 2000s

  • BitTorrent

    BitTorrent
    Year: 2001
    Invention: BitTorrent
    Inventor Bram Cohen
    This allowed users to download and upload items, usually movies and music. Copyright holders, including the music and film industries, analyzed it.
  • MySpace founded

    MySpace founded
    Year: 2003
    Invention: MySpace
    Inventor: Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe
    MySpace is one of the most significant social networks and contributed to the development of the second wave of social networking, despite not being the first or largest.
  • Hadoop is develop

    Hadoop is develop
    Year: 2005
    Invention: Hadoop
    Inventor: Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella
    Originally created by Google as an open source software project, Hadoop is used to extract search results from huge amounts of unstructured data, including data that may be obtained online.
  • Dropbox is founded

    Dropbox is founded
    Year: 2007
    Invention: Dropbox
    Inventor: Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston
    Dropbox is a cloud-based service that allows for easy file storage and access. Users may upload files to Dropbox's massive server farms via the internet and instantly access them from any of their devices or PCs with the Dropbox app installed.
  • Bitcoin is founded

    Bitcoin is founded
    Year: 2009
    Invention: Bitcoin
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakamoto
    In the Bitcoin system, users run software that searches for blocks of data, the discovery of which rewards them with Bitcoins. The transaction is recorded on the system, but user information remains private.