40,000 BC
Paintings and drawings are a new means of communication.
1400 BC
First writing in China, on bones.
389 BC
The founding of the Academy by Plato begins a new movement in education.
1453
The printing of the Bible with moveable type by Gutenberg transforms society.
1564
Graphite is discovered.
1635
Founding of the first public school in the US.
1651
John Dury invents the modern library.
1654
The first slide rule in which the slide works between parts of a fixed stock is made by Robert Bissaker.
1795
Nicholas-Jacques Conte of France discovers the process of mixing graphite with clay.
1872
QWERTY: Christopher Sholes develops a machine to print the alphabet.
1878
Sales take off after the Remington No.2 typewriter hits the shelf.
1901
Marconi sends a radio signal across the Atlantic.
1932
August Dvorak creates a keyboard that is easier to learn.
1960
An early CAI system, PLATO, was initiated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later developed by Control Data Corporation.
1961
The emergence of an on-line community around PLATO.
1962
The PLATO instructional computing system is widely used in college and K-12 classrooms.
1964
IBM brings out the MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter).
1967
Texas Instruments develops the first hand-held calculator.
1966
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is established as a national information system
1968
Douglas Engelbart introduces a prototype of the computer mouse, the "x-y position indicator for a display system."
1969
--The Arpanet is constructed.
--Scholar is developed by Jaime Carbonell, as the first Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS).
1970
The Arpanet goes online.
1975
--The Altair 8800 leads the way for personal computers.
--Ray Kurzweil and company create the Kurzweil Reading Machine and the first omni-font OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology.
1977
--Apple introduces the Apple II. View 1. View 2.
--Japan Victor Company (JVC) introduces the VHS format video cassette recorder.
1978
HyperStudio, a multimedia authoring tool that allows people to communicate ideas on diskette, CD-ROM or Internet.
1985
Aldus PageMaker is released for the Macintosh and desktop publishing is born.
1987
Apple begins shipping Hypercard, a programming system and multimedia authoring tool.
1989
The World-Wide Web begins at the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire.
1990
Texas Instruments creates the popular TI-81 graphing calculator.
1994
NJSTAR is created making it convenient to those who use Chinese, Japanese and Korean to surf the internet.
1995
Classroom Connect offers educational WebQuests for classrooms all over the world.
2008
Educators are beginning to apply the technology of iPods
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