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Charles Toussaint and Gustav Langenscheidt establish language school that communicates with students via mail.
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State of New York authorizes college level degrees via distance learning
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Correspondence learning becomes available to high school students in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Radio instruction met little success, but television became a well known tool in the classroom.
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Georgia Institute of Technology creates and releases an online database for on campus use.
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The information retrieval system "Gopher" is created at the University of Minnesota. It is named after the university mascot.
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The interactive web format known as web 2.0, or the read-write web, becomes available opening up the technology for many of the tools used in online learning as it is currently defined.
