In 1960, a team at the University of Illinois released the first version of their PLATO “computerized instruction system,” a network of what would eventually be thousands of computer terminals connected to large mainframe computers.
Terrific reading. More broadly, the PLATO system deserves far more credit than it’s received for pioneering a set of technologies and software we take for granted today (text-based chat, screen sharing, multi-player games, for instance) that we largely take for granted today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
Terrific reading. More broadly, the PLATO system deserves far more credit than it’s received for pioneering a set of technologies and software we take for granted today (text-based chat, screen sharing, multi-player games, for instance) that we largely take for granted today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)