Plato 50

My first experience with social media was Plato. I used it at University of Amsterdam when I was an undergraduate student in AstroPhysics. It was cool, and we used it for chatting and gaming, not for the education program that the University had bought the system for. It was the first time I saw people who were addicted to using a computer for games and social networking. Now, Plato celebrates 50th birthday. It's not really used any more, but people keep it going as a monument, as a starting point for the history of online social media. You can download a terminal client to connect to the Plato server at cyber1.org
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