Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Game Archaeologist: The PLATO MMOs, part 2

Filed under: MMO Industry, Opinion, The Game Archaeologist, Miscellaneous
In our last installment looking at PLATO, the educational computer network that linked a thousand terminals across the US together, I don't think I stressed enough how awesome this system was for the time. In the 1970s, most universities had computers that required punch cards for input and spat back results on printers, grade schools simply didn't have computers, and if you wanted a PC at home, you'd have to build one fro

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