Birthday Greetings to Online Forums and Community
[ by Charles Cameron — history was minted here ]
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Today is the fortieth birthday of Plato Notes — the “first permanent, general-purpose online conferencing system”, brainchild of my online friend David Woolley.
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You can read Brian Dear‘s PLATO Notes released 40 years ago today for the general story, or David’s own PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community from 1991 — but best of all perhaps would be this video, which will give you a sense of the man as well as the relevant history —
— and historic this truly was.
Happy fortieth, David — and more thanks from so very many of us than I quite know how to express.
