Technology in the 2000's

  • GPS (Global Positioning System)

    GPS (Global Positioning System)
    GPS is a satellite navigation system used to determine the ground position as an object. It first used by the United States military in the 1960s and expanded into civilian use. The GPS includes 24 satellites deployed in space about 12,000 miles above Earth's surface. Today the GPS is used in products like cars, smartphones, watches, and other technical devices.
  • Flash Drive

    Flash Drive
    The invention of the USB Flash drive revolutionized portable data storage. Prior to it, data was stored on CDs that could store 200 MB of data max but weren't widely available on personal computers, or floppy disks which could store 2.8 MB. Both mediums were at their capacity for how much data they could store.
  • Play Station 2

    Play Station 2
    Powered by 128-bit CPU that Sony developed with Toshiba. It is the first system that support backward compatibility.
    The hardware was advanced enough that made Sony and other companies go beyond their limits in the field of video games and technological entertainment.
  • I Phone

    I Phone
    it changed how we used to interact with our cell phones. Instead of using our phones with buttons and keyboards Steve Jobs and Jony Ive designed and created a phone with no physical buttons easy to use with our fingers. It has a 3.8 inch screen that doesn't need to be even with a stylus.
  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin
    Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It not owned by a bank or a government. It's a decentralized digital currency without a single administrator that is sent from user to user on the bitcoin network. it a record of transactions is maintained and new units of currency are generated by the computational solution of mathematical problems.