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Period: to
past 60 years of technology and education
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The first high speed Printer (remmington Rand)
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'Sputnik' Worlds first manmade satellite launched (Soviet)
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Vocational Education Act passes
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act brings more money into schools for technology.
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Birth of the ARPAnet, an early network of computers in Universities around the world
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Vinton Cerf creates TCP/IP: an internet protocol for computers on different networks to communicate
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3.5 inch floppy disk was introduced and will outsell the 5.5 inch floppy by 1988
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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.
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Tim-Berners Lee introduces the World Wide Web, the Internet we know today.
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Schools are using Gopher servers to provide students with online information
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Commercial introduction of USB Flash Drive
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Sony decides to quit making Floppy Disks, resulting in the final fall of the Floppy.