The Story of an Impossibly Early Online Community

Mar 11, 2018

11:00am – 12:00pm CT

It's 1974. In front of you is a PLATO terminal, with 512x512 graphics, a touch-sensitive screen, and multimedia support. You sign on into an online world of chat rooms, instant messaging, multiplayer games, online forums, email, screen sharing, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and more apps appearing daily. A thriving online community, that in 2017 is almost entirely unknown. Until now.

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Brian Dear

PLATO History Project

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