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=**The Mid-1980's to the late 1990's - The Personal Computer and the Internet Are Born**=

These representative timelines of the 1980's and 1990's list events occuring in history which had an impact on educational technology. In short, integration of computers in society had a significant affect on integration of technology in education. Developments in the 80's and 90's affected the way indviduals interact with computers and technology. Innovations of the 80's and 90's have come and gone but much of the foundation of modern-day academic computing stems from developments in these decades. The personal computer, the internet and the graphical user interface continue to play important roles in today's classrooms as well as serve as important tools to professional educators.

"The TV series 'Modern Marvels' takes a look at the technology of the 80s. Very fun look back at things like the boombox, VHC/Beta, video games and more."
 * Modern Marvels: 80's Technology** :: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-80s/videos/15379
 * CD, MTV, VCR, IBM - a decade of acronyms
 * The microchip size, function and cost
 * [|TIME Machine of the Year 1982 - the computer]
 * [|Moore's Law] (as explained by MythBusters for Intel) as performance doubles, price remains the same
 * 1981 - Intel - IBM PC launched [|TRS80,] [|Commodore Pet,] [|Apple II]
 * Silicone Valley - Adobe, Sun, Cisco...
 * From Pakistan to PEORIA - make your living at something computer-related
 * [|Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs] - Apple Computers; [|Apple I,] Apple II
 * The Lisa ([|first GUI, graphical user interface instead of command lines)]; 1MB memory $5,000, computer was $10,000
 * 1984 [|Apple Macintosh,] pitched to creative types, mouse, menus, icons; IBM models followed
 * The US Festival ([|Stray Cats - Rock this Town)] with technology tents, marriage of culture and technology
 * Video games - inspiration for PacMan came from pizza with a slice missing ([|Atari PacMac commercial)]
 * [|Beta Max] video player
 * [|The Walkman]
 * Cellphones - [|the bag phone]
 * CD-based music discs
 * The Rubiks Cube, Simon


 * Vintage Apple Lisa Items on eBay:**
 * Mouse :: selling for $129.99 ending November 9: [|eBay Auction for Lisa Mouse]
 * Owners Manual :: selling for $89.99 ending ending November 9: [|eBay Auction for Lisa Owners Manual]
 * Fully Operational Lisa 2/10 XL :: selling for $2,999 ending October 17:[|eBay Auction for Lisa 2]

[|Modern Marvels: 90's Technology on the History Channel] Tuesday, October 14, 7 PM CST or Wednesday, October 15, 12 AM


 * Computer Hope:: Awesome computer timeline for 1990-1999**
 * 1990 - Proposal for "hypertext" environment, the Internet ([|The Way Back Machine Internet Archive)]
 * 1990 - Bradley University Announces Residence Halls of the Future Programs :: [|Student Alumnus Blog];
 * 1990 - Microsoft [|Windows 3.0]released;
 * 1990 - First search engine, [|Archie,] written by Emtage, Heelan and Parker;
 * 1990 - Gopher is released - menu-driven search tool for Internet
 * 1990 - www is introduced to the public, August 6, 1991
 * 1991 - National Science Foundation opens Internet for commercial use
 * 1993 - President Bill Clinton puts email address on a web page ([|First White House Website)]
 * 1994 - Netscape founded by Andreesen and Clark
 * 1994 - Vice President Al Gore coins term "Information Superhighway"
 * 1994 - Iomega releases [|zip disks and drives]1994 - Hotwired.com runs first banner ad
 * 1994 - Yahoo created
 * 1995 - first wiki created - [|Portland Pattern Repository]
 * 1995 - Microsoft releases [|Internet Explorer 1.0]
 * 1995 - Amazon.com opens, eBay is founded, WebTV begins, Hotmail started
 * 1996 - Google developed
 * 1997 - Mosaic development and support discontinued
 * 1997 - The dancing baby is an internet fad - [|the dancing baby Ally McBeal version]
 * 1998 - [|iMac]introduced