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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...