Timeline

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"In the coming decades, the use of information technology and new communication capacity will dramatically alter commerce, culture, identity, social structures, politics, and the relationships between nations. The pace of these changes will likely outstrip those of any historical period, including the Industrial Revolution." (Professor Bruce Bimber, Political Scientist, UCSB)

The following timeline is a selective representation of the events that have led up to the current uses of computers in classrooms. While this is by no means an exhaustive list of events, it is designed to give users a sense of the major events.

Go to the full timeline database for this project, which allows for interactive browsing and searching and is paired with a related database of annotated links to online resources.