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  The friendly orange glow: the untold story of the rise of cyberculture
Dear B., Vintage Books, New York, NY, 2017. 640 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-631493-07-2)

This book tells the story of the first computerized system to assist in the learning process: PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations). The system was created at the beginning of the 1960s, at the University of Illino...
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Apr 29 2019  
   The friendly orange glow: the untold story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture
Dear B., Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2017. 640 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-101871-55-3)

The back cover notes: “a group of visionary engineers and designers ... in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, com...
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Jul 25 2018  

   
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