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http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/ The areas 'personal computers and imformation networks' through to the 'dot com gold rush', in the making the modern world website achieve there purpose by offering a wide range of factual information, that backs up there story on the technological advance of computers and the internet, and how these advances changed lifestyles, and created a whole new market.

The timeline achieves it's purpose by splitting computing/internet history down into 8 clear subsections which give information on;

• Personal computers and information networks
• The early internet
• Early home computers
• Picking winners
• WWW
• Global computer industries
• Dot com gold rush
• Conclsusion

These sections then explain the History of the making of computers and internet, who?, where?, when? etc... , the realisation of the power that a computer has and could have, importance of internet and what it will change and improve in the modern world, the effects IT will have on the world/businesses, and then they round all the information off into a conclusion providing more factual information on software, computer, and internet advances.

This site is also a good online education website because it shows the information in ways that differ and provide more interaction with the user so it becomes easier to learn and not a really impossible task to be able to give a conclusion on the information provided and whether it fulfils it's purposes.