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EdnTop: A Portal for Education in the Post-PC Era of Wireless PDAs
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— beginning in the 1960s with mainframe computers connected to classrooms, if at all, by wired teletype terminals; — followed a computing generation later by mini-computers and dedicated terminals; — followed in the 1990s by legions of personal computers, so-called “pcs” often wired to lans (local area networks) in client-server environments; most connected to the internet and the world wide web. — and now comes the wireless personal digital assistant, or pda. most everyone recognizes that the internet is changing nearly every aspect of our world, making “globalization,” worldwide, a reality the far reaches of which are, as yet, only dimly perceived by most of us.
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