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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

A major breakthrough took place in 1984 when Apple''s Macintosh computer was introduced. The Multimedia PC (MPC) came with a CD-ROM drive, meaning that the device can display video synced with audio. CD-ROMs quickly became a thing of the past. Those were all read-only technologies, Web 1.0 as people call it.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

The Apple II was launched in the late 70’s, but most of the world still ran on large mainframe computers. One of the first educational games made for the Apple II came in 1978, a year after the personal computer launched. Companies providing CD-ROM training content boomed, as production no longer required programmers to create it.

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