Educational Technology Timeline Contributions - LIS450LTL - Fall 2000 - Amy Fahey

6 Nov 1997

First public release of SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language, pronounced "smile") is released by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).  Using a scripting language similar to HTML, web developers are now able to bring television-like content to the web and synchronize text, still images and sound.  Select here for the original press release.

Sometime in the future...around 2030

Quantum computers become common in schools and on corporate desktops.  They possibly will process transactions a billion times faster than a traditional Pentium III personal computer, and they will work using quantum mechanics to do calculations instead of the electronics in a traditional computer. 

Last updated: September 26, 2000.