My 2 cents....
Plato was 20 years ahead of its time.
I was one of the lucky ones that could take my bike or moped when I was
14-15 and ride for 10 minutes and could access a terminal and had unlimted
access time....I wrote a few games...I dont have anything from those days,
sadly...no tapes, no listings...
Almost every afternoon this guy in a GM plant in Oshawa Ontario Canada would
TEL-TALK (IIRC?) me and we would play dogfight for a hour or so....he was
writing automobile-building robot animations or something....slow...still
neet...
I miss those days...I wish I could see some screen shots again....
Later all...
Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai_at_attbi.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Ebay - Neat PLATO system (AOL before AOL)
> This is pretty neat.A Plato terminal. I never knew a on-line community
> existed before Lee Feldstein's Community Memory project.In hindsight it
> looks like he was trying to copy Plato.
>
> A Description:
> Welcome to PLATO.
>
> The PLATO system, started way back in 1960, was developed as a
> technological solution to delivering individualized instruction, in
> thousands of subjects from algebra to zoology, to students in schools
> and universities across the nation. As the system grew and evolved, it
> became, pretty much by accident, the first major online community, in
> the current sense of the term. In the early 1970s, people lucky enough
> to be exposed to the system discovered it offered a radically new way of
> understanding what computers could be used for: computers weren't just
> about number-crunching (and delivering individualized instruction), they
> were about people connecting with people. For many PLATO people who came
> across PLATO in the 1970s, this was a mind-blowing concept
>
>
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