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The early 2000s recession was a major decline in economic activity which mainly occurred in developed countries. The recession affected the European Union during 2000 and 2001 and the United States from March to November 2001. [ 1 ]
The 2000s contained two recessions, according to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research. [1] The first occurred from 2001 to 2003, and the second began in December 2007. Major downturn in the value of dot-com shares, with occasional exceptions (Google's IPO on August 13, 2004). The Internet continues to grow as a business and advertising ...
Chrome subsequently became the most popular web browser in the world, overtaking Internet Explorer. September 23 The first version of Android was introduced by Google. [11] October 22 The HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), the first commercially available device to run the Android operating system, was released.
Data storage prices continued to drop, going from approximately US$7 per GB in early 2000 to US$0.07 per GB in 2009. [11] Due to an increase in capacity, USB flash drives rapidly replaced Zip disks and floppy discs (by Iomega) and 3.5-inch diskettes. The first 2 TB hard drives were developed and beginning to be used. [12]
Crochet was big in the '70s, but the '70s were big in the 2000s. Now that both eras are having a moment, it's the perfect time to embrace knit sets, bikini tops, sweaters, and more.
The internet felt decidedly different in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo:Getty Images The internet feels depressingly bleak these days: AI slop and bots ...
The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle [2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble , it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis .
By the early 2000s, digital cameras had eclipsed traditional film in popularity. Digital ink and paint was also invented in the late 1980s. Disney's CAPS system (created 1988) was used for a scene in 1989's The Little Mermaid and for all their animation films between 1990's The Rescuers Down Under and 2004's Home on the Range.