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Technology timeline

By niccrowley
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    Technology timeline

  • OU opens its doors instructing students with late night TV programmes

  • The first cellular telephone began operation

  • first text to speech

    Kurzweil Educational Products introduced the Kurzweil Reading Machine. Originally priced at $50,000, the machine converted books and other printed material into synthetic speech.

  • I.B.M. Personal Computer released

  • Voice activated Computers

  • OU had a Personal Computing policy and had introduced three courses that required use of a computer

  • JAWS released

    JAWS wikipedia Henter-Joyce released JAWS, its DOS screen reader. JAWS included dual cursors, (the PC cursor and the JAWS cursor) and macros.

  • WWW - begins at the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire.

  • PowerPoint for Windows launched

  • IWBs

    in the 1990s - not sure of exact year

  • WWW publicly available

  • Widespread Email use

  • first wiki was created

  • first wiki created

  • birth of webquests

    Classroom Connect offers educational WebQuests for classrooms all over the world

  • Google!!!

    Google

  • Web Accessibility Initiative (W.A.I.) established

  • DVDs widely available - used in schools and language learning.

  • Moodle released

    not sure if this is the correct year,

  • Second Life created

  • YouTube is born

  • iPod is released

    Touch technology is born