A short history of tools for communication and collaboration

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Concepts: pre-Internet tools, key contributors (Bush, Licklider, Taylor, Engelbart), stages of invention (vision, prototype, product, ubiquitous product)

The democratization of application development

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Concepts: application development in the batch processing, timesharing, personal computer and Internet eras

History of IT platforms and digital literacy

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Concepts: evolution (generations) of platforms for developing and delivering IT applications, changes in the IT literacy course as platforms changed, our current Internet-era IT literacy curriculum

The Web – vision, prototype and product

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Concepts: history of the Web, Internet culture, the contributions of Vannevar Bush, JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Tim Berners-Lee, evolution from concept to product