- The US White House goes online
- Mosiac is released - first browser-like application
- Businesses and media start to notice the Internet
- First online shopping malls
- www overtakes Telenet for second place behind FTP in popular usage on the Internet
- First release of Netscape
- Canadian Government goes online at gc.ca
- Browser war between Netscape and Internet Explorer starts
- Sept - Annapolis Valley Regional School Board first district in North American to have every school directly connected - always on, no dialup.
- Nova Scotia IEI project connects every secondary school, most elementary schools
The issue re this Internet History is its brevity. We have less than 4 years experience with a profound and radical change that is affecting the very way in which we teach. Educational institutional change does not happen quickly. We still use classroom practices that had their origins in the early 1900's. We have yet to understand all of the implications of John Dewey's Pedagogical Creed from 1897.
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