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The Antikythera Device, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator, is constructed in Greece. If we didn't have this today things would be very different and we wouldn't know the date.
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Wilhelm Schickard designs the first known mechanical calculator, the "Calculating Clock" to multiply large numbers. I think this invented is very important to us now because we need calculators to add or do anything with big numbers.
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The first typewriter is patented by William Austin Burt. It's slow and clumsy, but it's the first writing machine. Thanks to making this first typing machine now we got to bigger and better type writters.
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Magnetic recording is invented.Finally recording is invented as the webpage said, anyways this is also great if we didnt invent this we wouldn't have movies or music.
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Teletypewriters and teleprinters come into limited use in Britain, Germany and the US. This isn't really a good thing that they're limited but later on it was available to the public.
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IBM builds the first hard drive. It contains fifty 24 inch disks, has a capacity of 5 MB and costs over US$1,000,000. Now if we look at it hard drives are very cheap compared how they were before.
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The first video game is developed by grad student Steve Russell at MIT. Honestly I think the world would be better if we didn't have video games.
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The Atlas, the world's most powerful computer, is launched in Britain. If this didn't happened we wouldn't have better computers today.
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Apple releases the iMac. Apple is very popular now and knowing they put out a computer is even better. Who knew we would be able to be controlled so much in apple and that we would be able to download music.
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Xbox: Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.Xbox is so popular these days that teenagers all over the world use them.
