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2000: The First Camera Phone
In 2001, the first camera phone was invented by Philippe Kahn. The J-SH04 Jmobile phone was a slim device with a front screen, a number pad, and the first front facing camera on the back. -
2001: Windows XP
In the year 2001, Windows XP was released by Microsoft. Windows XP was the an operating system that was used to execute programs and operations on a computer. -
2002: Earth Simulator
In 2002, Earth Simulator is the fastest world supercomputer built by the Japanese Government. The supercomputer was used to evaluate the effects of global warming. -
2005: Hadoop
In 2005, Doug Cutting developed Hadoop as a way to facilitate a network of computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data. Hadoop had big companies such as Yahoo, IBM, Twitter, American Airlines, which used it to scale from single servers to thousands. -
2006: Amazon Web Services
In 2006, Amazon launched its cloud based services. AWS was a service that allowed users to rent virtual time on the cloud meaning companies didn't have to have complex computing infrastructure on their own.
