The dawn of the personal computer in the 1970s promised the greatest change in American instructional methods since the 19th century—which is when schools began to use standardized textbooks. While ...

A portrait printed as text. Computer portraits emerged in the 1970s when software was created to turn a photo into text characters. Typically promoted by vendors at carnivals and fairs, people were ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. The term “computer lab” might bring to mind a room filled ...