Important People & Companies Steve Jobs and Apple, Inc. (2001, 2003, 2007) iPods, iTunes, and iPhones changed the standards of sharing information and revolutionized the appearance of handheld devices Dean Kamen Co-founded FIRST Robotics in 1992 and created Jr. FIRST Lego League (2004) and FIRST Tech Challenge (2005) to make robotics more accessible to children and adolescents. YouTube (2005) For the first time, video sharing was made easier and more accessible to the public

Inventions/Innovations of By: Jude Wickham, Karina Yeh, & Jeremiah Zagada

BitTorrent (2001) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Enables users to download files as quickly as possible via file uploader Music, Videos, Freeware, Shareware, etc. USB Flash Drive (2001) 8 Mb first sold in the U.S. by IBM in Mb by 2003 Connection to a computer without drivers Can be written to thousands of times 128 Gb drives now available Media/File Sharing Devices

Camera Phones (2002) Captures photos/videos 80 million sold worldwide in 2003 iTunes & iTunes Music Store (2003) Apple MP3 (audio coding format) Individual songs (99 cents) and albums ($9.99) Media/File Sharing Devices (cont.)

In 2005 the first dual core central processing unit was made by AMD named the AMD Athlon 64 X2. The purpose of a dual core processor is to be able to multitask with less possible frame drops or lag. This processor could still be used today for basic functions like word or powerpoint since it could be overclocked to about 3.2 ghz stably In fact this dual core 3.2 ghz processor could even be used for modern games as long as the game is running on an optimal resolution (800x600) the most impressive of all is this kicked off our constant progression of the number of cores possible. Today we can see even 8 core processors. Central Processing Units (CPU)

Bitcoin was a currency developed on January 3rd Bitcoin is a completely anonymous and safe way to exchange currency between two individuals without government influence. This has to do with computing since one somewhat popular method to earn bitcoins is a process called Bitcoin Mining this is a process in which the users power from the computer is used to solve highly complicated math problems and when finished completely can earn a certain amount of Bitcoin. The usage for bitcoin is quickly going up as more and more store are accepting the currency. As time went by people have found more rapid ways to solve these equations using bitcoin optimized machines which, in simplest form, is just a bunch of high end graphics processors wired together. Bitcoin

Programming Languages Alice ML (2000) Can use lazy evaluation instead of eager evaluation C Sharp (2001) Developed by Microsoft More modern features than C++ and Java Works well with Windows servers Scratch (2003) Visual (drag-and-drop) language Developed by MIT to encourage kids to program Interactive sharing platform

DeviantArt (2000) LinkedIn (2003) Skype (2003) Myspace (2004) Flickr (2004) Facebook (2004) Yelp (2004) Vimeo (2004) reddit (2005) YouTube (2005) Twitter (2006) Tumblr (2007) SoundCloud (2007) Social Networks

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