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Timeline; 1979

On 29th January, 16 year old Brenda Spencer started shooting at San Diago's San Carlos Elementary School, Killing Two and injuring a number of others.

When asked why, her only comment was "I Don't Like Mondays, this livens up the day". This was the first of many school shootings, and the comment lead to the song "I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats", which was banned at the time due to american rules about publicity of ongoing cases and fair tials.

After selling the code for his "scribe" software, at the behest of the new owners Unilogic, Brian Reid embeded time based "logic bombs" into the code, therefore inventing Expireware software.

There were some books and movies created this year