WBTIC Online Learning Timeline
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- Text documents hyperlinked and published online as "tutorials".
- Websites increase from about 700 at start of year to over 10,000
by year end.
- Netscape's first browser.
- W3C founded.
- Yahoo! first appears.
- December 1994 - The WBTIC was the first site on the Internet
promoting its use for training. Tim Kilby coins term "Web-based training"
(WBT).
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- Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer browser.
- Sun launches the Java programming language.
- Amazon.com pioneers the commercialization of the Internet.
- A few other WBT specific sites appear in 1995.
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- The WBTIC changes its user interface and adds content. Visitation
to the site increases by 500% during year. The site conducts its
first online survey, the WBTIC
1996 Training Survey.
- eBay begins operation.
- WBTIC wins "Activate the Internet" award from Microsoft.
- "Browser wars" heat up.
- WBT courses can be accessed on the Internet for a price.
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- The WBTIC gets a major upgrade in content and includes new surveys
and discussion forums.
- 1,600,000 websites on Internet.
- WBTIC registers the domain names WEBBASEDTRAINING.COM and FILENAME.COM.
- InfoWorld (11/10/97): "Measured in Web years, [WBTIC] has
been around forever."
- IMS Global Learning Consortium and the U.S. Department of Defense's
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative begin work on distributed
learning standards.
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- E-commerce takes off.
- Research company IDC predicts WBT business at $1.86 billion
by end of 2000.
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- 9.5 million websites on Internet, over 5 million domain names
registered.
- AICC publishes version 3 of its CMI Guidelines for Interoperability
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- IDC predicts e-learning business at $15 billion by end of 2002.
- Estimated 1 billion web pages, 10 million domain names registered.
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- ADL Initiative releases SCORM version 1.0.
- Microsoft releases .NET framework, web services take off.
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- The WBTIC adapts to new technology and conforms to latest standards.
Substantial content changes and additions.
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