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Computers at School and at Work: A Historical Overview
A broad, hedged look at how computers reached offices and classrooms, from room-sized business machines to desktop PCs, networks and shared learning tools.
Computers and Society
Schools and Workplaces
How computers entered classrooms and offices and changed daily routines.
Computer Literacy Campaigns and Their Lessons
How governments, schools and broadcasters tried to teach everyday people to use computers in the 1980s and after, and what those campaigns showed.
Email at Work and the Changing Office
How electronic mail changed memos, meetings and expectations inside organizations, with its benefits, its frustrations and the habits that grew around it.
From Typewriters to Word Processors
How office writing moved from typewriters and retyping to dedicated word processing machines and software, and how that reshaped secretarial work.
How Computer Science Entered the Classroom
A plain history of how programming and computing became school subjects, from 1960s terminals and BASIC to Advanced Placement courses and modern coding efforts.
Logo and Teaching Children to Program
Logo was a language made for young learners in the late 1960s. Here is where it came from, how turtle graphics worked, and what its ideas left behind.
Office Automation and Changing Clerical Jobs
Which office tasks machines took over, from tabulating and payroll to typing and filing, and how clerical roles shifted rather than simply vanishing.
School Computer Labs and Their Early Days
What the first shared computer rooms in schools looked like, how classes used them, and why many schools gathered their machines in one place.
The Paperless Office: An Idea That Did Not Quite Happen
Why predictions that computers would replace paper in offices fell short, what really changed, and why paper remained part of daily work for decades.
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