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Big Data Timeline- Series of Big Data Evolution

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2005 - The tiny toy elephant Hadoop was developed by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to handle the big data explosion from the web. ” 1999 - The term Internet of Things (IoT) was used for the very first time by Kevin Ashton in a business presentation at P & G. US government invests $200 million in big data research projects.