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Computers
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1622
William Oughtred invents the slide rule. This first one was circular. -
Calculator
Wilhelm Schickard designs the first known mechanical calculator, the "Calculating Clock" Multyplies big numbers -
Pascaline
Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine which he calls the Pascaline. It could perform addition and subtraction, but it was too expensive to be practical and only he could keep it working -
Calculator
Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator that will add and subtract -
Calculus
Gottfried Leibnez, the man to blame for the invention of calculus, uses a stepped cylindrical gear to build his "Stepped Reckoner" which will both add and multipl -
Film
Toy Store releases Full-length feature film -
Microsoft
Microsoft introduces its lame version of a browser, Internet Explorer 3.0 -
Apple
Apple releases the Macintosh OS-8 system -
2000
As a result of a problem with computers' inability to expressi dates beyond 1999, the world is thrown into chaos and reverts to a primitive state reminiscent of Road Warrior -
iMac
Apple releases the iMac
