Technology and Education By Rynndragon Period: Sep 6, 1950 to Sep 6, 2011 past 60 years of technology and education Jan 1, 1953 The first high speed Printer (remmington Rand) http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_printers.htm Oct 4, 1957 'Sputnik' Worlds first manmade satellite launched (Soviet) http://www.history.com/topics/invention-of-the-internet Jan 1, 1963 Vocational Education Act passes http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html Jan 1, 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act brings more money into schools for technology. http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html Nov 15, 1969 Birth of the ARPAnet, an early network of computers in Universities around the world http://www.history.com/topics/invention-of-the-internet Jan 1, 1971 Commercial use of 8 inch Floppy disk The floppy disk was one of the main forms of portable information storage and transfer for many decades up until the 90's. They have/had many uses including storing essays and homework on for transfer/printing/and later use. Jan 1, 1979 Vinton Cerf creates TCP/IP: an internet protocol for computers on different networks to communicate http://www.history.com/topics/invention-of-the-internet Sep 6, 1982 3.5 inch floppy disk was introduced and will outsell the 5.5 inch floppy by 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk Sep 6, 1986 25 % of high schools use PCs for college and career guidance, K-8 schools buying mostly Apple II and Macintosh computers, high schools buying mostly DOS-based clones. http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html Jan 1, 1991 Tim-Berners Lee introduces the World Wide Web, the Internet we know today. http://www.history.com/topics/invention-of-the-internet Sep 6, 1992 Schools are using Gopher servers to provide students with online information http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html Dec 15, 2000 Commercial introduction of USB Flash Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive Mar 11, 2010 Sony decides to quit making Floppy Disks, resulting in the final fall of the Floppy. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/sony-announces-the-death-of-the-floppy-disk/