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Have y’all heard about the PLATO computer system? 

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-19-plato-part-1-a-revolution-in-teaching>

<https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-20-plato-part-2-an-online-revolution|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/|http://platohistory.org/>

There's an emulated system you can connect to at <https://www.cyber1.org/|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.

Oh awesome! I've been playing around with <http://irata.online|irata.online>, which is a plato system you can use today!

I really loved A Friendly Orange Glow! What made it confusing for you

I could never keep track of who was doing what in the stories he was telling.