[Web4lib] PLATO?

[K.G. Schneider]

> 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at freerangelibrarian.com