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Agricultural Age

Period: Jan 1, 1700 to Dec 31, 1810

Industrial Age

Period: Jan 1, 1790 to Dec 31, 1970

Dewey Experimental lab school

Jan 1, 1900

http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol1/dewey.html
Dewey Experimental lab school where teachers has two main functions: guide students through complexities of life and give them opportunities to learn in the natural way (solving relevant problems), and enable students to cope adequately with contemporary conditions and cope with new tasks.

Oxford English Dictionary

Jan 1, 1900

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1900-1909.html
The Oxford English Dictionary letters “A” to “H” are published

Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams

Jan 1, 1900

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.htm
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams

Thorndike's Theory of Connectionism

Jan 1, 1901

http://tip.psychology.org/thorn.html
Thorndike's Theory of Connectionism - Learning theory represents S-R framework of behavioral psychology. Theory’s three primary laws: law of effect, law of readiness, and law of exercise.

Nobel Prize First Awarded

Feb 1, 1901

http://www.fathom.com/feature/122236/index.html
Nobel Prize First Awarded - won by the Curies and Becquerel for their work on radium and radioactivity, by Koch who identified the bacillus causing tuberculosis and by Pavlov for his work on the digestive system

First Flight in Kitty Hawk

Dec 17, 1903

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm First Flight in Kitty Hawk - Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina

First Radar System - Christian Hulsmeyer

Apr 30, 1904

http://www.radarworld.org/huelsmeyer.htmlChristian Hulsmeyer in Duesseldorf, Germany, applied for a patent for his 'telemobiloscope' on the 30th April 1904, which was a transmitter-receiver system for detecting distant metallic objects by means of electrical waves. It was the first radar system used in shipping.

"Manhattan" cab-over-engine model

Jan 1, 1905

http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=254
Mack Brothers Company mounted a cab ove rthe engine. This increased visability of the driver, which made it easier to manuever.

First Plastic inventor Leo Baekeland

Jan 1, 1907

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/baekeland.htmlLeo Baekeland in 1907 invented the first synthetic polymer. He mixed the disinfectant carbolic acid (phenol) and formaldehyde.

Assembly Line Process - Henry Ford

Jan 1, 1908

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm
Henry Ford mass produced the model T car in 1908 through an assembly line process. The car originally sold for $825.00 but Ford was abe to drop the price to $575.00.

Maria Montessori – Montessori Method

Jan 1, 1912

http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/montessori2.html
Maria Montessori – Montessori Method. Theory says teacher must pay attention to the child, rather than the child paying attention to the teacher, child proceeds at own pace in an environment controlled to provide means of learning, Imaginative teaching materials are the heart of the process, and enable student to proceedat own pace.

Tarzan of the Apes

Jan 1, 1912

http://pseudo-intellectual.com/?p=418
Tarzan of the Apes - written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edison Diamond Disc phonograph - Thomas Edison

Nov 1, 1912

http://homepages.bw.edu/~rdensmor/BriefHistory/index.htmlThomas Edison invented the Edison Diamond Disc phonograph in the later part of 1912. It was considered the finest acoustic phonograph developed up to that time.

Regenerative circuit - Edwin Howard Armstrong

Jan 1, 1914

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the regenerative circuit which was patented 1914. This patent was later claimed by Lee De Forest

8 Hour day/$5 a day - Henry Ford

Jan 1, 1914

http://www.ford.com/about-ford/heritage/milestones/5dollaraday/677-5-dollar-a-day
Henry Ford institutes $5 a day and 8 hour work day. He was addressing attrition in the work force.

Worls War I

Jan 1, 1914

http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/GermanyC1.html
Worls War I - 1914-1918 - World War I marked the dramatic beginning of the end of European predominance over the globe

TransAtlantic radio-telephone

Jan 1, 1915

http://earlyradiohistory.us/1915ATT2.htm
Radio-telephone carries voice from Virginia to the Eiffel Tower, Paris - on three different occasions recently, and particularly on the evening of Oct. 20 last. On that memorable date the human voice was projected across the Atlantic for the first time in history, and "Hellos" and "Good-byes" spoken in Arlington were heard and understood in the French capital, 8,800 miles from the point of transmiss

Supreme Court Upheld Adamson Act

Jan 1, 1917

http://www.answers.com/topic/adamson-act

The SUpreme Court upheld the Adamson Act in 1917. The Act set an eight hour work day as the regular work day with the requirement for additional pay if longer hours were worked.

Uncle Sam Poster

Jan 1, 1917

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1910-1919.html
The Uncle Sam I Want You poster brings thousands of recruits to World War I

Kilpatrick's Project Method

Jan 1, 1918

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4954/
Kilpatrick's Project Method - teachers position student at center of learning process with activities focused around interests of student.

Washburne & Parkhurst - Individualized Instruction Plans

Jan 1, 1920

http://www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/Text_articles/V14_I1_Holt.htm
Washburne & Parkhurst - Individualized Instruction Plans

Hercule Poirot detective novels

Jan 1, 1920

http://christie.mysterynet.com/

Agatha Christie writes first of Hercule Poirot detective novels

Leading Executives become "special partners"

Jan 1, 1924

http://www.1920-30.com/business/executive-rewards.html
General Motors Executives to become Special Partners annouced in 1924. This would allow executives to be able to gain interest in the company.

Installment Consumer Credit

Jan 1, 1925

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/14/111721/366/266/436037
Installment consumer credit allowed indiviudals to purchase consumer goods without having to wait until the cash was in hand.

Ben Hur - An epic movie

Jan 1, 1925

http://www.decentfilms.com/reviews/benhur1925.html
Ben Hur - An epic movie

Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush

Jan 1, 1925

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89281
Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush

principle of the direct-radiator loudspeaker - Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg

Jan 1, 1925

http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/loudspeaker.html
Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg at General Electric established basic principle of the direct-radiator loudspeaker with a small coil-driven mass-controlled diaphragm in a baffle with a broad midfrequency range of uniform response in a research paper in 1925.

Random House begins book publication

Feb 1, 1925

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Random-House-Inc-Company-History.html
Random House begins book publication - The 27-year-old Cerf and his 23-year-old partner had purchased the 109-volume Modern Library line in 1925 for $215,000 from the Boni & Liveright publishing firm in New York. When Bennett A. Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer decided to rename their joint publishing venture Rando

cathode-ray tube - Vladamir Kosma Zworykin

Jan 1, 1929

http://inventors.about.com/od/xzstartinventors/a/Zworykin.htmVladamir Kosma Zworykin invented the cathode ray tube in 1929. This was very needed for the television.

Piaget - Child's Conception of the World

Jan 1, 1929

http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
Piaget - Child's Conception of the World. There are four primary cognitive structures:sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, and formal operations.

Mickey Mouse gets a comic strip

Jan 1, 1930

http://bobcat74.free.fr/mmds/mmdsnotes.htm
Movie cartoon character Mickey Mouse gets a comic strip

Electron Microscope - Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska

Jan 1, 1931

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/04/dayintech_0420
Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invented the electron microscope in 1931. The instrument had a resolution of only 400x

Second person to fly solo across the Atlantic

Jan 1, 1932

http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html
Amelia Earhart - Second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932

"New Deal" - Roosevelt

Jan 1, 1933

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm
1933 "New Deal" program - Roosevelt's advisers developed a National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA). Suspension of antitrust laws. This helped industries in that it resulted in less competition.

FDR begins radio Fireside Chats

Jan 1, 1933

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/fdroosevelt/essays/biography/4
FDR begins radio Fireside Chats, bypasses hostile newspapers

The Eight-Year Study Plan

Jan 1, 1933

http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/8year.html
Ralph Tyler's - The Eight-Year Study Plan - sought to determine if students completing alternative high school curricula could succeed in college

First tape recorder - Joesph Begun

Jan 1, 1934

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/10.html
Joesph Begun invented the first tape recorder for broadcasting in 1934.

Research and Design - DuPont

Jan 1, 1934

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/depression-innovation-research-leadership-managing-mckinsey.html

DuPont R&D was slow in the 1930's except for 1934 & 1935. During this time DuPont choose carefully when and how to invest in R&D.

Fair Labor Standards Act

Jan 1, 1938

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 banned child labor and set a minimum wage of 25 cents.

Continguity Theory.- Edwin Gutherie

Jan 1, 1938

http://tip.psychology.org/guthrie.html
Edwin Gutherie – Continguity Theory - combination of stimuli which has accompanied a movement will on its recurrence tend to be followed by that movement.

Bugs Bunny cartoons

Jan 1, 1940

http://emol.org/movies/bugsbunny/
Bugs Bunny cartoons - Bugs Bunny cartoon series, from Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, were produced by Warner Bros

First programmable comuter - Konrad Zuse

Jan 1, 1941

http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
Konrad Zuse completes the Z3 in 1941, which is the first programmable computer.

No strikes during War - AFL

Jan 1, 1941

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/pdfs/MDD_Limit_Labor_07.pdf
American Federation of Labor made a pledge that there would not be any strikes in the defense-related industries during the rest of the war.

Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7, 1941

http://www.pearl-harbor.com/
Pearl Harbor Attack - Japanese warplanes swooped out of a cloudless sky and demolished the US Pacific fleet docked at Pearl Harbor. It was this single catastrophic event, not the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain or the persecution of the Jews, that finally dragged the United States into World War II

First Electronic Digital Computer - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry

Jan 1, 1942

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050898.htm
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer in 1942. "I have always taken the position that there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer" - John Atanasoff to reporters.

Supreme Court - Movies

Jan 1, 1942

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1940-1949.html
Supreme Court reverses, offers movies some First Amendment protection

Married Women can work

Jan 1, 1943

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html
Due to War issues, married women were permitted to help fill the vacantcies due to men in combat in 1943 since most single women were already employed.

Information Age

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 2020

World War II ended

Sep 1, 1945

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html
World War II ended on Spetember 1945. The number of people killed in WWII is estimated at more than 55 million people.

Cone of Experience - Edgar Dale

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html
Edgar Dale - Cone of Experience -

Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum & Instruction

Jan 1, 1949

http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28184
Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum & Instruction - Tyler's thoughts on the relevance of behavioral objectives to the teaching process. four basic principles include: Defining appropriate learning objectives, Establishing useful learning experiences, Organizing learning experiences to have a maximum cumulative effect, and Evaluating the curriculum.

Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching

Jan 1, 1950

http://tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
Skinner - The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching - based upon the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behavior - Changes in behavior are the result of an individual's response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment

Introduction of term Rock-n-Roll

Jan 1, 1951

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1950-1959.html
Disk jockey Alan Freed introduces the term rock ‘n’ roll

Video Tape Recorder - Charles Ginsburg

Jan 1, 1952

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ginsburg.html
CHarles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorderin 1952.

Gestalt Theory - Max Wertheimer

Jan 1, 1954

http://tip.psychology.org/wertheim.html
Max Wertheimer – Gestalt Theory - emphasized higher-order cognitive processes in the midst of behaviorism

Guinness Book of Records

Jan 1, 1955

http://www.solarnavigator.net/guinness_book_of_world_records.htm
Guinness Book of Records - The first edition was published in 1955, commissioned by the Guinness brewery after a debate between its managing director Hugh Beaver and hunting partners over the fastest species of European gamebird could not be settled with existing reference books

Optic fiber - Narinder Singh Kapany

Jan 1, 1956

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/inventions-of-the-1950s.html
Narinder Singh Kapany invented the optic fiber in 1956. This is used in fiber-optic communication.

Critical Path Method (CPM) - DuPont

Jan 1, 1957

http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/cpm/
Critical Path Method (CPM) - DuPont developed a project management method in 1957 that was designed to address the issues of stopping chemical plant production so maintenance could be completed and then resuming production. CPM provides 3 key aspects, a graphical view of project, prediction time requirement for completion, and identifies critical activities for maintaining schedule.

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1716.html
Sputnik - Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. In a single stroke, this 184 pound object brought into question the United States' pre-eminence in science, industry, and military power

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1716.html
Sputnik 2 - 250 pound Sputnik 2, which was launched on November 3, 1957 with the first dog to oribt the Earth,

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) founded

Jan 1, 1958

http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/cpm/
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was founded in the United States in 1958. The goal was to develop information technolgies that could survive a nuclear attack.

Bay of Pigs

Apr 14, 1961

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1765.html
Bay of Pigs - The Bay of Pigs invasion was intended to provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro, who had overthrown American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Instead, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to American aggression.

Compact audio-cassette - Phillips Company

Jan 1, 1962

http://inventors.about.com/od/audiowaxrecordstomp3/a/Cassette_Tape.htm
The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962. This utilized 1/8 inch polyester tape from BASF.

First annual QC Conference for Foremen

Jan 1, 1962

http://quality-circles-history.blogspot.com/
First annual QC Conference for Foremen was held in 1962

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 1, 1962

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1736.html
Cuban Missle Crisis - brought the world close to a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Subsumption Theory - David Ausubel

Jan 1, 1963

http://tip.psychology.org/ausubel.html
David Ausubel – Subsumption Theory - individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting

Jacques Cousteau

Jan 1, 1963

http://cozumelrentalvillas.com/History-Cousteau.htm
Jacques Cousteau, The Living Sea -

Hand-held calculator - Jack St. Clair Kilby, Jerry Merryman & James Van Tassel

Jan 1, 1966

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/handcalculator.htm
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Jerry Merryman & James Van Tassel invented the first hand-held calcualtor in 1966. This occurred at Texas Instruments Incorporated.

Information Pickup Theory - James Gibson

Jan 1, 1966

http://tip.psychology.org/gibson.html
James Gibson – Information Pickup Theory - perception depends entirely upon information in the "stimulus array" rather than sensations that are influenced by cognition.

"Star Trek" debuts on NBC

Jan 1, 1966

http://www.nola.com/star-trek/index.ssf/2009/05/the_star_trek_tv_show_and_movi.html
Star Trek television show - Television audiences are introduced to pointy-eared Vulcans, transporter beams and green-skinned women

Floppy Disk was invented

Jan 1, 1967

http://www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html
Floppy Disk was invented by Alan Shugart at IBM. Original floppy disks were 8-inch disks then evolved into 5.25-inch disks, and finally evolved into 3.5-inch disk.

QC Circle Study Team overseas (JUSE)

Jan 1, 1968

http://quality-circles-history.blogspot.com/
Union of Japanese Scienctists and Engineers (JUSE) dispatched the first QC Circle Study Team overseas in 1968

Congress bans tobacco ads in broadcasting

Apr 1, 1970

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20715.html
Congress bans tobacco ads in broadcasting - President Richard Nixon signed legislation banning cigarette ads from airing on television and radio.

Doonesbury

Jan 1, 1971

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/B.D.(Doonesbury)
Gerry Trudeau introduces Doonesbury - popular quarterback
became roommate to the nerdy, awkward Mike Doonesbury

microprocessor - Faggin, Hoff and Mazor

Nov 1, 1971

http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm
Faggin, Hoff and Mazor invented the microprocessor in 1971.It was introduced byh a company called Intel.

Nixon Resigns

Aug 9, 1974

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LLNfnTDrnm1QQnGqpj2Q5bPxhpvqQMWqwbSGDR01C21tqNhG4NRk!-522989652!-345831520?docId=5006777530
Nixon resigns due to watergate scandal

Quality Control activity began – Suzuki

Jan 1, 1976

http://www.suzuki-gokin.co.jp/eng/company/history.php
The Quality Control activity began in the Suzuki company in January of 1976

Social Learning Theory - Albert Bandura

Jan 1, 1977

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/bandura.html
Albert Bandura – Social Learning Theory - the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others.

Stars Wars Movie

Jan 1, 1977

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/motionpicture.html
Star Wars released in 46 U.S. theatres equipped for Dolby Stereo; Star Wars next spring won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Sound

Fiber Optic Cable

Mar 1, 1977

http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html
In Chicago, AT&T installs the first fiber optic cable in a commercial communications system

Social Development Theory - Vygotsky

Jan 1, 1978

http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html
Vygotsky - Social Development Theory - social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition

Quality Circle Quaterly First Appeared

Jun 1, 1978

http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft7f59p19s&chunk.id=d0e3165&toc.id=d0e4289&brand=eschol;query=0
Quality Circle Quaterly appeared in 1978 in the second quarter of the year. The first issue contained background inforamtion about quality cirlces.

Half of firms in the Fortune 500 implemented Quality Cirlces

Jan 1, 1980

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html
over one-half of firms in the Fortune 500 had implemented or were planning on implementing quality circles by 1980

PacMan released

Jan 1, 1980

http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=pac-man&page=detail&id=1914
Pacman - pacman is chased by blinky, inky, pinky, and clyde, the four ghosts.

MS-DOS Operating system - Bill Gates

Jan 1, 1981

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
MS-DOS was developed by Bill Gates for IBM.

General Motors Corp. - 100 quality circles

Jan 1, 1981

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html
General Motors Corp. had established about 100 quality circles among its Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Fisher Body divisions by early 1980's

CATS Premiere

May 11, 1981

http://www.squidoo.com/CatsBwayMusical
Cats premiered on May 11, 1981 - . It was the hottest new musical! and many professional dancers wanted to get a part in Cats

MTV Premiered

Aug 1, 1981

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/mtv/history.html
MTV premiered - Appropriately, the first music video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

Personal computer - IBM

Aug 12, 1981

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm
IBM introduced the personal computer with a 16 bit computer operating system in 1981.

Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner

Jan 1, 1983

http://tip.psychology.org/gardner.html
Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligences - there are a number of distinct forms of intelligence that each individual possesses in varying degrees

AT&T break up

Jan 1, 1983

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1980-1989.html
AT&T forced to break up; 7 Baby Bells are born

Situated Learning - Jean Lave

Jan 1, 1988

http://tip.psychology.org/lave.html
Jean Lave – Situated Learning - learning is a function of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs. learners become involved in a "community of practice" which embodies certain beliefs and behaviors to be acquired.

Congress passes Children’s Television Act

Jan 1, 1990

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/newsandevents/pressreleases/childrens_tv_act
Congress passes Children’s Television Act - place requirements that broadcasters devote three hours a week to children’s educational and informational programming while setting limits around advertising to children on television

Cognitive Flexibility Theory

Jan 1, 1990

http://tip.psychology.org/spiro.html
R. Spiro, P. Feltovitch & R. Coulson - Cognitive Flexibility Theory - focuses on the nature of learning in complex and ill-structured domains. theory is largely concerned with transfer of knowledge and skills beyond their initial learning situation.

Minimalism - John Carroll

Jan 1, 1990

http://tip.psychology.org/carroll.html
John Carroll – Minimalism - framework for the design of instruction includes: learning tasks should be meaningful and self-contained, learners should be given realistic projects, instruction should permit self-directed reasoning, training materials and activities should provide for error recognition and recovery, and close linkage between training and actual system should exist.

U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling - Electromation Inc. unlawful QC

Dec 1, 1992

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html#ixzz0gm4DkYXS
U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Electromation Inc. operated unlawful quality circles and employee involvment programs in 1992.

SCRUM process - Jeff Sutherland

Jan 1, 1993

http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum
Jeff Sutherland created the scrum process in 1993. He borrowed the term "scrum" from a study where the authors, Takeuchi and Nonaka, come the functionality of teams to the scrum formation utilized in Rugby.

"Spider" searches

Jan 1, 1993

http://robot-club.com/lti/pub/ieee97.html
“Spiders” search the Internet looking for key words

DuPont rules against by U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Jan 1, 1993

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html#ixzz0gm4DkYXS
U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling against DuPont in 1993 for unlawful quality Cirlces. By this time these rulings were having an effect on companies by making them hesitant to institute new quality cirlces for fear of law suits.

Mosaic is renamed Netscape Navigator

Jan 1, 1994

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/historyofie.mspx
Mosaic is renamed Netscape Navigator - Netscape Navigator was called "Mosaic Netscape" before a lawsuit forced a change of nam

M.I.T. student charged

Jan 1, 1994

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1990-1999.html
M.I.T. student charged with wire fraud for file swapping system

Java Language - Sun Microsystems Inc.

Jan 1, 1995

http://www.businessweek.com/1995/49/b34533.htm
Sun Microsystems Inc. designed Java computer language in 1995. This allowed program to run on any computer.

WebTV - Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics

Jan 1, 1996

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_web_tv.htm
WebTV was developed by Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics in 1996. Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics produced and marketed the first WebTV sets.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Jan 1, 2000

http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/wbcsd.html
Corporate Social Responsibility: Making Good Business Sense published World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 2000.

Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory

Jan 1, 2000

http://opencontent.org/docs/dissertation.pdf
David Wiley - LODAS - Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory - provides guidelines for the analysis
and synthesis of an undifferentiated content area the application produces specifications for the scope and sequence of learning objects.

Mini autonomous robots

Jan 31, 2001

http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm
Mini autonomous robots invented by Ray Byrne, Ed Heller and Doug Adkins at Sandia National Laboratories . These tiny robots are 1/4 cubic inch in size and weigh less than one ounce. they are powered by three watch batteries and contain an 8K ROM processor, two motors, temperature sensor, and track wheels.

Napster loses appeal

Mar 5, 2001

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/napster.htm
Court limits Napster’s Internet file-sharing of music - Judge Marilyn Patel issued a revised injunction consistent with the February 12th decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in this case

iPod - Apple Computers

Oct 23, 2001

http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/iPod.htm
Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player, the iPod, The iPod was actually annouced after the introduction of iTunes.

Janet Jackson Wardrobe issus

Jan 1, 2004

http://www.wowowow.com/entertainment/supreme-court-weighs-janet-jackson-wardrobe-malfunction-285438
Janet Jackson's “wardrobe malfunction” on TV leads to national uproar

Wallace & Gromit - Animation Oscar:

Jan 1, 2005

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/2000-2009.html
Animation Oscar: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit

Start of YouTube

Apr 23, 2005

http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=108
YouTube - invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. YouTube is an online video sharing site where videos can be uploaded for any and all to see.

Blended Learning - Charles Graham and Curtis Bonk

Jan 1, 2006

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Blended-learning
Charles Graham and Curtis Bonk - Blended Learning - combination of multiple approaches to learning such as the use of virtual and physical resources

Cloud computing

Jan 1, 2009

http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1289409
Cloud computing - cloud computing is economic and scalable for organizations

Scrum 2010 - the Agile event in New Zealand

Mar 1, 2010

http://news.java-virtual-machine.net/5339.html
Scrum 2010 - the Agile event in New Zealand. This conference includes training sessions and workshops including Certified Scrum Master courses.

Fourth Wave?

Period: Jan 1, 2020 to Dec 31, 2075