1960's PLATO Computer System

Did You Know? UofI Was First to Launch Computer-Assisted Learning!

It was 1960 when computer scientists at the University of Illinois launched the first generalized computer-assisted instruction program.

PLATO-IV system for computer aided instruction

The PLATO system (Programmed Logic Automated Teaching Operations) was developed at the University of Illinois in 1960.

Donald Bitzer Develops PLATO 1: The First Electronic Learning ...

at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Plato I included a television for a display, and a special system to navigate the system's menu. It serviced ...

PLATO: How an educational computer system from the '60s shaped ...

The book about this system (and the still existing implementation of the system) is really good. "The Friendly Orange Glow"

During Watergate, Nixon tried to shut down PLATO, the first online ...

The PLATO computer system, launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was designed to be a platform for online learning ...

How an educational computer system from the '60s shaped the future

Many of the computing innovations we treat as commonplace started with this system, and even today, some of PLATO's capabilities have never been ...

The Genius of PLATO: The First Education Technology's Lasting ...

Long before the internet and modern education technology, a groundbreaking computer-based education system called PLATO (Programmed Logic ...

PLATO Computer System - Emulation General Wiki

The PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) system was an early distributed computing network which was in use from the 1960s up until 2006.

The Greatest Computer Network You've Never Heard Of - VICE

Such is the life of the PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), the first computer-assisted learning system in wide use.

PLATO: The first language learning program (1960) - Taalhammer

It was a computer-based learning system developed at the University of Illinois in the 1960s. While not specifically a dedicated language ...

PLATO: How an educational computer system from the '60s shaped ...

If you're interested in PLATO, The Friendly Orange Glow is a great book to read, although I felt like it was a bit more rosy eyed than technical ...

A little history of e-learning: finding new ways to learn in the PLATO ...

This paper offers a narrative history of the world's first computer learning system, PLATO, developed at the University of Illinois between 1959 and 1976.

PLATO: How an educational computer system from the '60s shaped ...

The book A People's History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin has a fair amount of history on the PLATO project, including ...

PLATO - Computer History Wiki - gunkies.org

PLATO was a very early, innovative computer-based learning system ... (In the late 1960s, custom plasma monochrome bit-mapped display‎‎s ...

PLATO: The Creation of the Online Community and the Orange ...

It was 1960 and thousands of miles from Silicon Valley. The intent for PLATO was a computerized learning system. Ambitious and wild as it ...

Celebrating the Legacy of Plato - Communications of the ACM

The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.

1960's PLATO Computer System - Computer Aided Learning

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PLATO and the Dawn of the Computer RPG - SUPERJUMP

In 1960, the University of Illinois inadvertently created a new genre of video games. That was the year that they introduced the world to PLATO, a novel ...

June 2020 Archives - PLATO History

Please help support this important project to document and archive the history of the PLATO computer system and its online community. Your ...

1960 - Technology-Enhanced Learning MTU

1960 PLATO SYSTEM (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) The University of Illinois developed the PLATO computer-assisted ...