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“A joint industry-government committee develops ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the first universal standard for computers. It permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data” (computerhistory.org).
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“With ARPA [Advanced Research Projects Agency: US government program] funding, Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill create the first wide-area network connection” (computerhistory.org).
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"The ARPA Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet" (wikipedia).
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“Intel’s release of the 4004, the first ‘computer on a chip,’ ushers in the epoch of the microprocessor” (computerhistory.org).
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Launch of USENET: “an early example of a client server where users dial in to a server with requests to forward certain newsgroup postings” (computerhistory.org). USENET allows Duke University to communicate with the University of North Carolina.
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"Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs) commercially introduced in 1980” (wikipedia).
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“NASA has ARPANET nodes, as do many Department of Energy (DOE) sites. Now several Federal agencies support the Internet, and the number is growing” (computerhistory.org).
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“Its purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitations. It played a significant role in spreading awareness of, and access to, national networking and was a major milestone on the path to development of the global Internet” (wikipedia).
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31 states use 13,000 personal computers for career guidance, computer-based tutorials, and learning games are developed by software manufacturers. http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html
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“Instead of an hierarchical or keyword organization, Berners-Lee proposes a hypertext system that will run across the Internet on different operating systems. This was the World Wide Web” (computerhistory.org).
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Multimedia PC was developed in the schools using videodisc, object oriented multimedia such as simulations, educational database through the use of the CD-ROM disk. The beginning of what will become the "Multimedia Age in the Classroom". http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6821/Multimedia-in-Education.html
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"The Internet is no longer just for machines to talk to each other” (computerhistory.org).
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The evolution of multimedia in the classroom engages students with digital video, virtual reality, and 3-D systems. Object-oriented systems such as Hypercard, Hyperstudio, and Authorware grows in popularity in most U.S. classrooms. http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html
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"The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first major overhaul of United States telecommunications law in nearly 62 years....This Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, was a major stepping stone towards the future of telecommunications, since this was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment" (wikipedia)
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The beginning of the Internet age in the public schools was first initiated by President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore when they participated in NETDAY '96, spending the day at Ygnacio Valley High School, as part of the drive to connect California public schools to the Internet. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_on_Global_Climate_Change
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"As the internet expands so do technologies in the classroom. In today's digital age, most to all school rely heavily on database information, graphics, steamline videos, digital images, and web-base site to increase student knowledge through research and project based learning" (http://www.edutopia.org/classroom-technology)
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