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=The History on Revolution and Evolution of The Internet in Education=

The achievement of Internet has brought a tremendous transformation in the educational field, especially in teaching methodologies and distance education with the collaboration of multimedia and virtual learning environment. toc

In 1969, a UCLA team led by prominent professor of computer science Len Kleinrock sent the very first message over the ARPANET, an interconnected networking system which later became known as the //Internet//. = =

1974 is the year when the term “Internet” first came into use

On February 16, 1978, Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS went online, later gradually evolved into Internet forum, which allows people to post threads and to discuss different topics freely.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was invented in 1988, enabling the communities to form online chat room to communicate and to share their knowledge. IRC subsequently developed into Instant Messaging (IM). IM has been contributing to the usage of teleconferencing in educational context.

The World Wide Web was launched in 1990, using Hypertext to link information and to make the sharing of information over the internet accessible with the widespread of websites all over the world after CERN released World Wide Web into public domain in 1993.

In the 1990s, the generality of Internet made the transferring of digital data much easier, including e-books. The first generation of e-reader device or e-book reader is believed to appear in the 1990s.

In the mid of 1990s, blog emerged, widely spread in the late 1990s and the years following.

W3Catalog, the web's first primitive search engine was released on September 2, 1993. In 1997, Google Search was launched and it is now the most-used web search engine on the Internet. The invention of the search engine has made the hunting of information and knowledge effortless.

WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki in the world, developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994. However, the most well known wiki in the latest era is Wikipedia, which is founded in 2001. Wikis are often used to produce collaborative work and acted as the simplest online database.



Web 2.0 was first introduced to the public in 1999 and the term began to acquire its popularity in the mid of the 2000s.

In 1999, the University of Tübingen in Germany initiated OpenCourseWare (OCW) by sharing the video of the lectures on the Internet. The idea of OCW later adopted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002,and followed by a number of universities. These open educational resources allow educators, students and self-learners to utilize the digitized materials in their teaching, learning and research. All of the materials are free of charge!

In the early of the 2000s, social networking sites such as Friendster began to emerge as an online platform for users to maintain social relationships through internet. Today, Facebook as the hottest social networking, is the #2 ranked website in Alexa, after Google.





3G was commercially launched in 2001. The rise of 3G (Third Generation) mobile phone in the 2000s had sped up the data service of Internet through cellular technology. Now, the public is able to attain educational resources in an even easier manner using 4G technology, iPhone and android phone.

The launching of iPod by Apple in 2001 has given the society an alternative option to download learning materials from the web and carry them all around in a relatively small size. The education has become portable!

In the late 2004, podcast began to seize public’s attention while Youtube was founded i n 2005, later growing into a distinguished video-sharing website up-to-date.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was formed in 2005 “to create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low cost, low power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning”.

In 2010s
Although iPad is not the first tablet computer, its release on April, 2010 by Apple has brought a great impact to the technology world. iPad is served as a multimedia learning tool with wireless Internet connection.



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