Eric's Educational Technology Timeline

Xerox Copier

Mar 12, 1960

Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in 1959, and it gradually replaced copies made by Verifax, Photostat, carbon paper, mimeograph machines, and other duplicating machines.

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is established

Mar 12, 1966

Computer Mouse prototype created

Mar 12, 1968

Slippery Rock University gets computer and reaches out to local high schools

Mar 12, 1971

Basic four-function calculator goes commerical

Mar 12, 1975

Apple introduces Apple II

Mar 12, 1977

Plato Computer is commericalized

Mar 12, 1980

Scantron machine is created

Mar 12, 1982

Texas Instruments creates hand-held graphing calculator

Mar 12, 1985

CD-ROM drive introduced

Mar 12, 1985

First digital celluar phone commercialized

Mar 12, 1988

Computers introduced to my school district

Mar 12, 1989

First computer lab at my school

Mar 12, 1993

World Wide Web begins

Mar 12, 1993

Smart Boards are introduced.

Mar 12, 1998

Second computer lab at my school

Mar 12, 1999

No Child Left Behind

Mar 12, 2002

Clicker introduced

Mar 12, 2005

Discovery Education streams educational video

Mar 12, 2005

Wireless internet access for my district's senior high school

Mar 12, 2006

Laptop carts for each department at my district's high school

Mar 12, 2008

Reinvestment and Recovery Act

Mar 12, 2009

iPod carts for each department at senior high

Mar 12, 2009

Wireless internet for part of my school's building

Mar 12, 2009

Apple unveils the iPad!

Jan 12, 2010

My school recieves two iPod carts

Mar 12, 2010

GoogleDoc Accounts are created for all student at my school

Jan 4, 2012