Amaya Toman Today, we cannot imagine our lives without various tools that help us perform simple and very complex calculations. Today is the anniversary of the patenting of the "calculating machine" - the predecessor of the classic calculator. In addition, in today's episode of Back to the Past, we will also remember the arrival of the Netscape Navigator 3.0 browser.
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Calculator patent (1888)
William Seward Burroughs was granted an 21 patent for a "calculating machine" on August 1888, 1885. Burroughs was not lazy and in the course of a single year he produced as many as fifty devices of this type. Their use was not exactly twice as easy at first, but gradually they were improved. Over time, calculators eventually became a device that even children could control without problems. Burroughs founded the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., and if his name sounds familiar, his grandson was famed beat writer William S. Burroughs II.
Netscape 3.0 Comes (1996)
On August 21, 1996, version 3.0 of the Netscape Internet browser was released. At the time, Netscape 3.0 was one of the first capable competitors for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0, which reigned supreme at the time. The Netscape 3.0 Internet browser was also available in a special "Gold" variant, which included, for example, a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Netscape 3.0 offered users a number of new functions and improvements, such as new plug-ins, the ability to choose the background color of tabs or, for example, the option of archiving.
