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Author: pyratebeard <root@pyratebeard.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:34:08 +0000
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@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ _The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of
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-I love learning about the history of technology and this book is a goldmine of information. I, like I imagine most people, had never heard of the PLATO system and yet while reading The Friendly Orange Glow it amazed me how many inventions, both hardware and software, started with PLATO.
+I love learning about the history of technology and this book is a goldmine of information. A little surprisingly, I had never heard of the PLATO system and yet while reading The Friendly Orange Glow it amazed me how many inventions, both hardware and software, started with PLATO.
-Brian Dear spent over a decade compiling this book with research and interviews with the people who built and worked on PLATO. Starting as an education tool it grow into an international community writing software, playing games, and even falling in love.
+Brian Dear spent over a decade compiling this book. The extensive research and interviews with the people who built and worked on PLATO craft an incredible story of what could be considered the first social network. Starting as an education tool it grow into an international community of like minded folk writing software, playing games, and even falling in love.
-It was strange hearing about the technology and reminding myself that this was pre-internet, even before desktop computers, and yet elements of the cyberculture I still love today existed. Anyone that reads my blog or knows me online will know that I am a terminal user and still hang around on IRC servers. I also poke around BBS servers and public access systems such as [sdf.org][sdf] or various [tilde][tilde] communities.
+It was strange hearing about the technology and reminding myself that this was pre-internet, even before desktop computers, and yet elements of the cyberculture I still love today existed. Anyone that reads my blog or knows me online will know that I am a terminal user and still hang around on IRC servers. I also poke around BBS servers and public access systems such as [sdf.org][sdf] or various [tilde][tilde] communities. The story of PLATO gives a warm nostalgic feeling of an age of computing not dominated by adverts and the need to make money.
For anyone who loves the history of computing I strongly recommend this book.
