PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community Copyright © 1994 by David R. Woolley An earlier version of this article appeared in the January 1994 issue of Matrix News. Overview Two decades before the World Wide Web came on the scene, the PLATO system pioneered online forums and message boards, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer games, leading to the emergence of what was perhaps the world's first online community. The PLATO system was designed for Computer-Based Education. PLATO originated in the early 1960's at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. PLATO is a timesharing system. Throughout the 1960's, PLATO remained a small system, supporting only a single classroom of terminals. PLATO Notes: Original Development In the summer of 1973, Paul Tenczar asked me to write a program that would let PLATO users report system bugs online. We already had a way for users to report bugs, but it was just an open text file called "notes". This was simple enough, but there were problems. Anonymity
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