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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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The Rise of Groupware

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These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. Google Docs , Microsoft Teams , Slack , Salesforce , and so on, are such a big part of many people’s daily lives that they hardly notice them. We take that for granted now, but back then it was considered magical: Like Lotus 1-2-3, Notes is easy to customize.