[Web4lib] PLATO?

[Rick Mason]

I hadn't heard of PLATO before, but the info on these pages suggest that 
it was way ahead of its time:

http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/history/PLATO.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO
http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
http://www.platopeople.com/about.html

Rick Mason
http://blog.librarysupportstaff.org/

Ward Price wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ward Price
> Reference Librarian
> The University of Texas-Pan American
> Edinburg, TX  78541
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