Computer inventions in 2000-2010

  • Sharp J-SH04

    Sharp J-SH04
    Sharp launched the first ever camera phone in the world. It became popular with teenagers in Japan first, and then slowly became popular with Europeans.
  • USB Flash Drive

    USB Flash Drive
    The first flash drive had 128 MB and was priced around $30. Today, they are generally bought and sold in GB and go as low as $10 each. To give you some perspective on size, 1 GB = 1024 MB!
  • Apple iPod

    Apple iPod
    The iPod was a handheld music player which could hold "1,000 songs in your pocket," as said in their slogan.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    The founders of Facebook attended Harvard, so they made a place for Harvard students to post photographs of themselves and personal things like class schedules and clubs they were in. That is how it first started out!
  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome
    There were only two main browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox, and Google wanted to make theirs more modern and new. Now, it is one of the most popular browsers to use.