5 Fun and Awesome USB Drives That Think Outside the Box

Trek Technology and IBM began selling the first USB flash drives commercially in 2000. Trek Technology sold a model under the brand name „ThumbDrive“, and IBM marketed the first such drives in North America with its product named the „DiskOnKey“, which was developed and manufactured by M-Systems. IBM’s USB flash drive became available on December 15, 2000, and had a storage capacity of 8 MB, more than five times the capacity of the then-common floppy disks.