PLATO Creator Reflects Back At Invention (video)
June 2, 2010
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How PLATO Sparked The Social Network Revolution… 50 Years Ago! (video)
June 2, 2010Perhaps the greatest untold story in the history of computing is the development of the PLATO system at the University of Illinois and later also at Control Data Corporation.
Largely unknown today to the general public, PLATO’s list of innovations and seminal influences is considerable.
For the first time ever, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. assembled many of the key people involved with the creation of the PLATO phenomenon for its PLATO@50 event.
Below is Brian Dear overview of the PLATO history. Dear is the author of the upcoming book The Friendly Orange Glow, scheduled for release in late 2010; the first book ever to tell the story of the PLATO system, its creators and users, and its seminal online community that emerged in the early 1970s.
The book is the result of more than 20 years of research, including conducting over 400 interviews and amassing a large archive of clippings, reports, books, articles, recordings, and other documents. In addition to the book, Dear runs a website about PLATO at http://platohistory.org. The serial entrepreneur became a user of the PLATO system in 1979 at the University of Delaware, through which he also met his wife!
Brian Dear PLATO overview, part I
Brian Dear PLATO overview, part II
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