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-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.

Oh awesome! I've been playing around with irata.online, which is a plato system you can use today!

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

Ah yeah, that’s always hard