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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.