The first commercially successful computer, introduced in 1951 by Remington Rand. Over 40 systems were sold. Its memory was made of mercury filled acoustic delay lines that held 1,000 12 digit numbers. It used magnetic tapes that stored 1MB of data at a density of 128 cpi.
Audiovisual communications is that branch of educational theory and practice primarily concerned with the design and use of messages which control the learning process. (Ely, 1963, pp. 18-19).
A systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970, p. 21).
Ray Tomlinson invents email program to send messages across a distributed network. Click on the link to read how Tomlinson decided to use the '@' symbol in emails.
Project Gutenberg is started to put books and public domain documents online.
Educational technology is a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization and utilization of a full range of learning resources and through the management of these processes (AECT, 1972, p. 36).
The term "internet" was adopted in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675:[29] Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974) as an abbreviation of the term internetworking and the two terms were used interchangeably.
Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning (AECT, 1977, p. 1).
In January of 1984, Apple announced the Macintosh. Its user-friendly interface swelled the ranks of new computer users.
On the second of November 1988, an internet worm was released across the networks affecting some 6,000 of the 60,000 computers online. Eventually stopped and disassembled by researchers at Berkley and MIT, the worm exposed some serious security holes in the growing network. In response to the needs exhibited during this incident, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) was formed by DARPA.
Tim Berners-Lee coined the term World Wide Web
The first full-text Web search engine was WebCrawler in 1994. Before WebCrawler, only Web page titles were searched.
Instructional technology is the theory and practice of the design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning (Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 1).
The Web had one million sites. Blogging began. SixDegrees.com let users create profiles and list friends. AOL Instant Messenger let users chat. Blackboard is founded as an online course management system for educators and learners.
Google began in March 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and world's largest wiki, was started.
Linden Lab opened the virtual world Second Life on the Internet revolutionizing what synchronous meetings can look like.
Web 2.0 is considered the second generation of the World Wide web and is based on collaborative work, information sharing and interactivity.
The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.
Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p. 1).
The first live Internet link into low earth orbit was established on January 22, 2010 when astronaut T. J. Creamer posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account from the International Space Station, marking the extension of the Internet into space. (Astronauts at the ISS had used email and Twitter before, but these messages had been relayed to the ground through a NASA data link before being posted by a human proxy.) This personal Web access, which NASA calls the Crew Support LAN, uses the space station's high-speed Ku band microwave link. To surf the Web, astronauts can use a station laptop computer to control a desktop computer on Earth, and they can talk to their families and friends on Earth using Voice over IP equipment.
At the end of the 2000, there were an estimated 360+ million users on the internet. Today that number is over 2 billion and growing.
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