Online Learning History Let's build up a complete history of key
milestones in internet-based learning. Each event should be a
heading that includes the date. 1960 - PLATO PLATO (Programmed
Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) system developed at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The system remains
in operation until the mid-1990s. Wikipedia background on PLATO.
1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes Education Automation
Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer
setup with network connections to process the documentaries that
your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture
objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new
world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85) 1969 -
Founding of the Internet US DoD commissions ARPANET. Hobbes
Timeline 1971 - Ivan Illich's Learning Webs Ivan Illich
describes a computer-based education network in his book
Deschooling Society 1979 - USENET begins USENET established
using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Tru