URBANA – The PLATO computer system at the University of Illinois innovated both in hardware – including plasma display and touch screens – and software – educational innovations, email, interactivity ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"First, a quick jump back to the mid-70s – your online day starts as you sit down to your computer, with its gas-plasma flat-panel graphics display and built-in touch screen. Once signed on, you're ...