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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
By Dear, Brian
- ISBN
- 9781101871553 9781101871560
- Publisher
- Pantheon
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Reviewed on October 15, 2017 | Science and Technology
Tech entrepreneur Dear distills interviews and oral histories compiled over 30 years into this history of PLATO, an educational technology platform that became a vibrant programmer community prizing creativity and innovation. Developed at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s, PLATO was a mainframe- and terminal-based automated learning system. Later developments included a lesson-authoring language, behind-the-scenes messaging and bulletin board system...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
