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Arcade Wise
10/26/2023, 8:52 PM
Have y’all heard about the PLATO computer system?
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Personal Dynamic Media
10/26/2023, 9:05 PM
The podcast Advent of Computing had a couple good episodes about it.
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-19-plato-part-1-a-revolution-in-teaching
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-20-plato-part-2-an-online-revolution
It is discussed by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. There's some information at
http://platohistory.org/
There's an emulated system you can connect to at
https://www.cyber1.org/
The book The Friendly Orange Glow is the most complete history of PLATO that I know of, but I did not enjoy reading it. It was very confusing.
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Arcade Wise
10/26/2023, 11:39 PM
Oh awesome! I've been playing around with
irata.online
, which is a plato system you can use today!
I really loved A Friendly Orange Glow! What made it confusing for you
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Personal Dynamic Media
10/26/2023, 11:42 PM
I could never keep track of who was doing what in the stories he was telling.
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Arcade Wise
10/27/2023, 4:32 AM
Ah yeah, that’s always hard
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