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There were whiteboards in 1990?

posted 8 years ago by monkeyalien
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I'm almost 30 and didn't see a big whiteboard until high school when chalkboards started being replaced. If that could have been done at least 10 years earlier then someone owes me and many other people reparations for all the nail-on-a-chalkboard feelings when chalk-to-chalkboard contact went awry. Then there's all the chalk dust. Was the delay due to cost or the fear that we'd be excessively sniffing the markers?

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[–] Galactus03 8 years ago

Yes there were whiteboards....you should be be old enough to remember that. They werent the standard in classrooms yet but we're used in boardrooms and personal use....

[–] esther70 8 years ago

I was in university in 1990 and we have whiteboard in tutorial classes.

[–] MatteusNova 8 years ago

I think we had whiteboards when I went to DT (Data Teknik) education (3-4 years long depending on how you did it), in the early 90s. At least I think so.

[–] m86753052 8 years ago

Yes they did.

I had a typing class in the fall of 1987 in my high school. We started with IBM electrics and chalkboards. One day, mid-semester, there were rows of IBM PCs, and the chalkboard was replaced with a whiteboard.

Ironically, my spring '88 semester for basic programming had chalkboards in the classroom and Apple IIe's.

My guess is, as budgets allowed, and as computers became more commonplace, chalkboards went down and whiteboards went up.

I'm guessing that still today, janitors have to deal with one teacher that uses a permanent marker on the whiteboard.

[–] Sluggr-3 8 years ago

They had white boards, but SWOT had not yet been invented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfB0g_JDIds

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[–] tb-sch 8 years ago

Same over here: Whiteboards have a big downside, as they need markers and in big classrooms are often unreadable, so they only got installed in tech environments or basement rooms which for isolation purposes had carpets.

Which started over here with language labs, which in some parts of germany were the failed attempts to bring technology into the schools without caring about who would bother to use it. When we got informatics classes, this problem solved itself, as the students were interested in using the machines, while those old recording machines decayed until they got thrown out.

[–] mimosveta 8 years ago

I'm not american but I remember seeing whiteboards in movies sometime during 90's

[–] andrew-wilhelm 8 years ago

There is a whiteboard in the 2nd episode. Circa 1983

[–] ssllaasskk 8 years ago

The first time I saw one, was in 3rd class in the mid 70's.
We had a teacher that had some allergy to the regular stuff.

By the early 80's they were everywhere.

Here in Sweden at last

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[–] mlaiuppa 8 years ago

Our local school district started installing them in the late 80s due to chalk dust and chalk allergies.

Of course we have a few teachers that are allergic to dry erase marker.

Now the white boards have been replaced with interactive boards connected to the laptops.

[–] murray-92-257388 8 years ago

The whiteboard was invented around the late 50's/early 60's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboard

[–] Spookyman 8 years ago

My school had whiteboards in the mid 80s.

[–] tuffysmom 8 years ago

We had whiteboards at my junior-high school in 1974.

[–] Huskie_Jon 8 years ago

I remember seeing one in the early eighties, but not in school or college. Why get rid of chalkboards right away?

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[–] chiefbrody-84984 8 years ago

I remember in '91 or '92 that my classroom had a whiteboard in it.

[–] lifes_too_short 8 years ago

My school had whiteboards in 1982

[–] Galactus03 (4375) 8 years ago

Well that's settled. This was an old thread from IMDB....So thought I would bump it up...lol

[–] mikeyp (146) 7 years ago

My Primary school had Whiteboards in summer of 85[UK] when I was 4, I used to love/still do the squeaking noise when teacher would rub off the coloured pen off it :-)