History of Networks

 

Waterways

 

Paths and Trails

 

Roads

 

Bridges

 

Sail

 

Rails & Tracks

 

Airways

 

Digital Information: wires to wireless

 

 

 

History of Educational Technologies

 

25,000 BCE

Cave drawings

4000

Phoenician writing

3500

Papyrus (paper)

1500

Books

1105 CE

University of Bologna (oldest)

1450

Printing Gutenberg (China = 868 CE)

1536

Graphite Pencil

1635

Boston Public Latin School

1731

Public Library – Ben Franklin

1809

Slate Board

1821

Boston Public High School

1828

Noah Webster’s Dictionary

1829

Fountain Pen

1829

Typewriter

1833

Daily Newspaper

1833

Oberlin College (co-ed)

1837

Photography

1844

Telegraph

1876

Telephone

1877

Phonograph

1881

Tuskegee and Spelman

1891

Motion Pictures

1903

Crayola Crayons

1885

Wireless Telegraph

1920

Radio Broadcast

1928

Sound movies

1935

Television (BBC)

1939

Yellow School Bus

1943

Computer (Hewlett-Packard)

1953

Mainframe computer IBM 701

1957

Sputnik

1969

Arpanet (beginning of Internet)

1972

Email

1976

VCR

1977

First Personal computers

1994

WWW

1997

80% schools with Internet access