过去十年科技回顾

过去十年科技回顾

In this morning's TechBytes, we look back at the technology that changes the world in the past decade.

"5,4..."

As we counted down to 2000, fears Y2K would crash the world's computers had many questioning if we become too dependent on technology. Most of us had no idea just how hooked we get.

Google was just a few years old then, a simple search engine with a loyal following. A few months later, it would explode into the world's largest. Today, it is the most visited site on the web, with over 1 billion searches everyday.

"The iPod, it's cute."

MP3 players were nothing new when the first iPod was introduced in the fall of 2001, but this player from Apple was different.

"You can download 1,000 of your favourite songs from your Apple computer in less than 10 minutes."

TV was revolutionized, too. HDTV, huge flat screens but the most life changing development-- TiV o and the DVR. Now we can watch shows on our time and rewind to see something we missed. Today, more than 38 million US households have a DVR.

"People for 2001 are gonna wanna take it on the roads to see something like the Blackberry."

"From this to this tiny thing?"

"Well..."

Little devices called Blackberries became Crackberries. Now, the office is always at your fingertips.

And the decade brought friends closer together. Friendster and MySpace got it started, but Facebook took it mainstream.

"It’s everyone’s, like Santa, like life."

At first, it was all college kids, but soon their parents and even grandparents followed. Today, Facebook is the second most visited site on the web with 350 million users.

That was a look at some of the biggest tech stories of the past decade. For the latest tech news, log on to the technology page of . Those are your TechBytes. I'm Winnie Tanare.

Word For You：

rewind : to make a tape in a cassette player, etc. go backwards