Replies to post #217127 on Green Energy Enterprises Inc. (GYOG)

[samplescave]

No. I meant 1987.

Get With the Program!

And here's a link to "My Proof"...

11-25-2005 02:07 PM #11 Mary A
Registered User Join Date:May 2001
Location:Denver

Posts:248Interesting thread. Since you asked about courses I would say that NJIT was probably first given the work of Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz in the 80s. University of Wisconsin also offered online courses early on but I don't have much information on that. My old school started offering a degree program completely online in 1987 - authorized by the state of California in 1988 and accredited by DETC's predecessor NHSC in 1993 - we were the first online school to achieve any type of accreditation.

It's always interesting to see how the adjectives are used. Jones and UoP actually had to revise their message to include things like first regionally accredited and first 100% online school to gain regional accreditation when challenged by the DETC given ISIM's 1993 accreditation.

Mary

http://www.degreeinfo.com/distance-learning-discussions/22455-first-school-offer-internet-courses.html

[Porgie Tirebiter]

Mr. Cave is correct.

You are confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web. Academics were the first users of the internet. It goes back into the 1970s.

Archie and FTP. Veronica and Gopher. Brings back memories. But even those protocols were late developments.

Centaflix is not inventing anything here. Just using extensions of IRC which has been around since 1987 or 1988. IRC predates the web by at least a few years.

In fact, I have to add a little factoid here. The first time I ever personally logged on to a computer network was in 1972 or 1973 and it was for academic training.