[Web4lib] PLATO?

[Andrew Mutch]

http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm

and

http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:24:23 -0600
>From: "Ward Price" <wprice at utpa.edu>  
>Subject: [Web4lib] PLATO?  
>To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>
>We've been discussing gaming in libraries recently, which caused a
>flashback.  When I was an undergraduate student at Indiana University,
>perhaps around 1974-75, the University of Illinois had something called
>PLATO, which was some kind of ancient Internet game or program running
>at their campus in Urbana-Champaign.  IU students in Bloomington,
>Indiana, would go to the library and log on via an Internet connection
>(I guess they were telnetting) to UIUC to play the game.  I had no idea
>what they were doing back then; the Internet was only about 5 years old
>at the time, fifteen years before the World Wide Web.  The IU students
>who were using it thought it was pretty cool.  I wonder what they'd
>think about it now.  Anyway, does this sound familiar?  Does anyone know
>what the heck I'm talking about?  Just curious.
>
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>
>Ward Price
>
>Reference Librarian
>
>The University of Texas-Pan American
>
>Edinburg, TX  78541
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>wprice at utpa.edu 
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