{"id":25701,"date":"2013-08-08T04:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T04:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25701"},"modified":"2013-08-08T04:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T04:37:03","slug":"birthday-greetings-to-online-forums-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25701","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Greetings to Online Forums and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; history was minted here ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Woolley\" width=\"650\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley.png 650w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the fortieth birthday of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PLATO_(computer_system)#Online_community\">Plato Notes<\/a> &#8212; the &#8220;first permanent, general-purpose online conferencing system&#8221;, brainchild of my online friend <strong>David Woolley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>Brian Dear<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/13392e324814\">PLATO Notes released 40 years ago today<\/a> for the general story, or David&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/just.thinkofit.com\/plato-the-emergence-of-online-community\/\">PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community<\/a> from 1991 &#8212; but best of all perhaps would be this video, which will give you a sense of the man as well as the relevant history &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmuN_RpXn6I\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley-video1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Woolley video\" width=\"617\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley-video1.png 617w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/David-Woolley-video1-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; and historic this truly was.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy fortieth, David &#8212; and more thanks from so very many of us than I quite know how to express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; history was minted here ] . Today is the fortieth birthday of Plato Notes &#8212; the &#8220;first permanent, general-purpose online conferencing system&#8221;, brainchild of my online friend David Woolley. ** You can read Brian Dear&#8216;s PLATO Notes released 40 years ago today for the general story, or David&#8217;s own PLATO: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,945,134,346,693,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-community","category-computers","category-connectivity","category-social-media","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25701"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25726,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701\/revisions\/25726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}