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Jul 8, 1440
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg completes his development of the Gutenberg press, the first printing press. -
Sep 5, 1492
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg completes his development of the Gutenberg press, the first printing press. -
Aug 6, 1505
Peter Henlein,
Peter Henlein a craftsman from Nuremberg Germany, creates the first watch. -
John Napier
John Napier introduced a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting. -
The circular slide rule is invented by William Oughtred.
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The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm Schickard. -
Germanys Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz creates a machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically.
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An early form of punch cards begin to be used in textile looms.
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Siemens is founded
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American Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity
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Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards
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Intel introduces the Intel 486SX chip in April in efforts to help bring a lower-cost processor to the PC market selling for $258.00.
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Cell phone Lithium batteries begin being recalled in Japan after phone explodes and burns mans face while talking on the phone.
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The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code.
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Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on
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Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT.
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The computer Monkey Virus is first discovered in Edmonton, Canada.
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Cell phone Lithium batteries begin being recalled in Japan after phone explodes and burns mans face while talking on the phone.
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SF opens the Internet to commercial use
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3M is founded.
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The IEC is founded in London England.
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G. N. Lewis begins work on the lithium battery.
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First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh, PA.
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MPAA is established.
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Patent is filed for the Harvard Mark I digital computer
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The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
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panasoni
Panasonic is founded. -
id Software is founded
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BSDi is founded.
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ansi
ATA-3 is approved by ANSI. -
google
8 Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page September 7, 1998. -
nvidia
NVIDIA introduces the GPU. -
bill clinton
U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast among the announcements President Bill Clinton announces a new web site that will be able to search all government resources. -
pc
- PC shipments worst since 1986, as only Dell grows.
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Microsoft
Microsoft releases DirectX 9, December 19, 2002. -
myspace
MySpace is founded. -
Apple
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC -
ebay
eBay acquired Skype for approximately $2.6billion. -
SKype
Skype announced that it had over 100 million registered users. -
CORE2
Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4600 (2M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) -
CORE
Intel releases the the Core 2 Duo E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) -
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Apple introduces the iPad -
AMD introduces the AM386 microprocessor family
