In the 1960s and 1970s, PLATO was used as a groundbreaking computer-aided instruction (CAI) system, equipped with modern features such as beautiful graphics and touch ...

It seems obvious now: People are the “killer app” for computers. Computers are less about computing and much more about communication, connection and community. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, email, ...

"So I was drawn in and hooked pretty fast," said Dear, an intended English-journalism major who eventually left college to work on PLATO — the Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations ...

Students using PLATO Terminals at the University of Illinois, circa 1969. Kristen Wilson Students using PLATO Terminals at the University of Illinois, circa 1969. School has started again, and many ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, he developed the PLATO computer system, which combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays. By Michael S. Rosenwald Donald Bitzer, an ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Documents the story of the 1960s computer program and platform that marked the true beginning of cyberculture, revealing the role of ...