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USB Flash Drive
Don Moran created the USB Flash drive which could be used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files between various devices. They were faster and had greater data capacity than earlier storage media. Also, they could not be scratched like optical discs and were resilient to magnetic erasure, unlike floppy disks. https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/2000/ -
PlayStation 2
Sony created the PS2 allowed for DVDs to be played as well as game disks, making it more of an entertainment console than a game console. Many consumers bought the PS2 for its DVD player alone, since the PS2 was cheaper than stand-alone DVD. players.https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/2000/ -
Google
Larry Page created the popular web browser/search engine: Google. Google would become the worlds number 1 most used browser somewhere between 2002 and 2004. It would greatly increase the rate at which people could discover new information and find their answers due to it's optimized method of pulling results from a broad spectrum from the search using key words rather than specific web domains. -
Youtube
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created Youtube in 2005. YouTube has become an major contributor to computer development because it represented a different way of absorbing information and was easily accessible. In addition to this, it was also incredibly easy to become a content creator of your own and share any kind of video you wanted, be it for entertainment, instruction or just to show people new things, YouTube allowed individuals to become more public on their own. -
iPhone
Apple would develop a new kind of phone known as the iPhone that would come to revolutionize how we view our mobile devices. They would change from a utility used solely on communication and take quickly to the form of a pocket computer. Becoming our mapping, oour email, our social media, and even game system.
