Timeline: historical advances in educational technologies

2010 BCE

First Ipad

1990 BCE

Interactive Whiteboards

The first interactive whiteboards were designed and manufactured for use in the office. They were developed by Xerox Parc around 1990. This board was used in small group meetings and round-tables. The interactive whiteboard industry was expected to reach sales of US$1 billion worldwide by 2008; one of every seven classrooms in the world was expected to feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011.

1989 BCE

World Wide Web (WWW)

English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser computer programme in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland

1980 BCE

Laptop

small, portable personal computers that combine the components, inputs, outputs and capabilities of a desktop computer in a small chassis. Before laptop/notebook computers were technically feasible, similar ideas had been proposed, most notably Alan Kay's Dynabook concept, developed at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. One of the first reasonably portable computers was the Xerox NoteTaker, again developed at Xerox PARC, in 1976. However, only 10 prototypes were built.

1976 BCE

Apple Computer sells 50 Apple I

1975 BCE

First personal computer

Altair sold the first PC, it was a kit that must be assembled

Period: 1972 BCE to 2017 BCE

Fourth generation electronic computer system

Microcomputer revolution begins,
Personal computer (PC),
Advances increase memory size, storage space and processing,
Process over 1 billion operations per second,
Cost about 2.000 dollar of less,

1971 BCE

First microprocessor chip

Intel develops 4004

1971 BCE

Floppy disk

A floppy disk, also called a floppy, diskette or just disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic enclosure lined with fabric that removes dust particles. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks, initially as 8-inch media and later in 5¼-inch and 3½-inch sizes, were a ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange from the mid-1970s into the late 2000s

Period: 1965 BCE to 1971 BCE

Third generation electronic computer system

Used integrated circuits,
Up to 3 million bytes of memory,
Lower cost, smaller size, and increasing processor speed.

Period: 1957 BCE to 1964 BCE

Second Generation electronic computer system

Used transistors developed by Bell Labs,
Up to 32K of memory,
Programming in computer languages, such as FORTRAN (formula translating) and COBOL (common business oriented language).

Period: 1943 BCE to 1956 BCE

First generation electronic computer system

vacuum tubes in electronic circuits,
punch cards to input and externaly store data,
4K of memory,
programming in machine language and assembly language,
Required a compiler.

1932 BCE

Instructional television program in the State University of Lowa

1932 BCE

16MM sount motion picture

for educational workhorse during the audio-visual movement of the time.

1927 BCE

Pressey programmed learnng through a machine with learning task

1926 BCE

Educational films for instructional media

1920 BCE

Visual and audio-visual media

Nov 19, 1990

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Sep 15, 1997

Google

The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases. It was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997