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Where Were You When PLATO Was Born?

Posted by kdawson on from the ask-socrates dept.

PLATO, cradle of so many firsts, was born 50 years ago. Next week the Computer History Museum is hosting a two-day conference to celebrate the anniversary. Microsoft's Ray Ozzie, who worked on PLATO as an undergraduate, will be one of the keynote speakers. Co-producer Brian Dear has put together a list of today's technology notables and what they were doing in 1973, the year that social computing suddenly blossomed on PLATO.

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  1. And then they screwed him over... by denzacar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and took away his planet and gave it some dwarfs.

    Not to mention the humiliation of naming a cartoon dog after him.

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    Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens