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First Camera phone introduced .
Phillipe Kahn invented the first camera on a phone . Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone, the J-Phone J-SH04; a Sharp-manufactured digital phone with integrated camera. The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display, and photos could be shared wirelessly. -
Microsoft enters gaming (Xbox)
In 1998, members of Microsoft's multi-media DirectX team reconfigured old Dell laptops to create a Window-based video game console.The Xbox used standard PC parts, including a built-in hard drive. Seen as a major risk for a software company, the Xbox console surprisingly sold out its initial North American production run. -
Earth Simulator
The Earth Simulator was listed as the fastest supercomputer in the world from 2002 to 2004..Developed by the Japanese government to create global climate models, the Earth Simulator is a massively parallel, vector-based system that costs nearly 60 billion yen . -
DropBox
Dropbox is founded by Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston. Dropbox was designed as a cloud-based service used for convenient storage and access to files. -
Bit Coin
In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto publishes Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.In the Bitcoin system, users run software that searches for blocks of data, the discovery of which reward the users with Bitcoins. The transaction is recorded on the system though user information is private. These can then be used online much like cash in the real world.