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A Look Into the Past - IT-Times from 10 years Ago
Writing
Class Ventures into Internet
On September 22,1992, Kathy Dixon received her first
e-mail message. She promptly found ways to use email
and internet in the classroom and shared her experiences
in a 1993 issue of IT Times.
Another
View: E-Mailing a Large Class
When Lecturer Andy McClelland wrote this article a decade
ago, he was ahead of the curve, venturing into the “electronic
classroom.” His words still ring true today: “By
not insisting on computer literacy, we are selling our
students short.”
Liberation
Technology
Equal Access Via Computer
Communication
Ten years ago, this blind professor reported in IT Times
about finding ways that online learning could bring
together students of varying backgrounds, disabilities,
races, classes, and cultures.
Netiquette & Info Tech Culture
Suggestions
for Writing Style in Electronic Communications
&
More
tips on Writing Style and Tact in Electronic Communications
Reading these two articles (from 1993) in retrospect
reveals at least two surprises: one, how easily we have
absorbed email customs over the years; two, how far
we still have to go.
Registration
Automated for Student Accounts
Read this story from Fall 1992, a time when students
had to be reminded to access UC Davis online by signing
up for an “Easy Account.”
MELVYL
Database Has Current Congressional and Political Information
UCD Plugs into Washington
Treasure Trove
This article reminds us of a time when online research
databases were never taken for granted.
Lights,
Camera, Action...
Video Teleconferencing Update
This report was published at a time when the UC system
was just on the brink of interconnecting via videoconferencing.
Touch-Tone
Registration in Effect
Relive the glorious moment when the Registrar declared
freedom from the “collegiate rite of passage”
of waiting in endless lines to register for classes.
Making
Life Simpler at UC Davis
"The CAP" Helps Campus Use
Information Technology
&
Pushing
for Positive Change
Departments Unite in Effort
to Bring More Information Online
July 1, 1992 was the official birth date of unified
information technology services at UC Davis (known as
IT then, and IET now). These article from 1992 and 1993
announce the early efforts to offer a computing help
desk and integrated IT services to the campus.
VIRUS
NEWS
Vintage virus alerts, circa 1993.
Campuswide
Information System Poised For Growth
While you enjoy the convenience of MyUCDavis in 2003,
look back to this article from ten years ago, when the
campus was already integrating computing services and
systems.
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