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1500 - 1700 A.D. 1588 Agostino Ramelli's reading wheel Agostino Ramelli designed a "reading wheel", which allowed browsing through a large number of documents without moving from one spot to another. The device presented a large number of books - a small library - laid open on lecterns on a kind of ferry-wheel. It allowed skipping chapters and browsing through pages by turning the wheel to bring lectern after lectern before the eyes. Ramelli's reading wheel thus linked ideas and texts and reminds of today's browsing software used to navigate the World Wide Web. 1597 The first newspaper is printed in Europe. browse Report: Timeline of Communication Systems     Timeline of Communication Systems: Introduction  ... -3   1000 B.C. - 0 -2   0 - 1400 A.D. -1   1400 - 1500 A.D. 0   1500 - 1700 A.D. +1   1700 - 1800 A.D. +2   1800 - 1900 A.D. +3   1900 - 2000 A.D.      ... More and more, faster and faster, but...  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  Java Applets Java applets are small programs that can be sent along with a Web page to a user. Java applets can perform interactive animations, immediate calculations, or other simple tasks without having to send a user request back to the server. They are written in Java, a platform-independent computer language, which was invented by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Source: Whatis.com