The ancient Greek 'computer' had a dial for the Olympics.

776 BC · 100 BC · apart: 676 years

One of the Antikythera mechanism's scales tracked the four-year cycle of the Panhellenic games, a calendar of the great sporting events.

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• Antikythera mechanismc. 150 BC · Antikythera island. In 1901 sponge divers raised a lump of geared bronze from a Roman-era shipwreck. It was a Greek device of the 2nd century BC that computed planetary positions, eclipses and even the years of the Olympic Games. Nothing as complex reappeared until the 14th century.

8th century BC · 1st century BC

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