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The friendly orange glow : the untold story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture / Brian Dear.
Van Pelt Library QA76.8.P53 D43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dear, Brian, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- PLATO (Electronic computer system)--History.
- PLATO (Electronic computer system).
- Cyberspace--History.
- Cyberspace.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 613 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- Documents the story of the 1960s computer program and platform that marked the true beginning of cyberculture, revealing the role of PLATO ideas in inspiring countless technological innovations, from flat-panel wall TVs to multiplayer games.
- Contents:
- Part I. The automatic teacher
- Praeceptor ex machina
- An educational emergency
- The super-achiever
- The diagram
- Soldering irons, not switchblades
- Gas and glass
- Two's a crowd
- Knocking on the same doors
- A fork in the road
- Lessons learned
- Part II. The fun they had
- Impeachment
- The new wave
- The big board
- The killer app
- Empire
- Into the dungeon
- The zoo
- Red sweater
- The supreme being and the master of reality
- Climbing the ziggurat
- Coming of age
- Part III. Getting to scale
- The business opportunity
- The whim of iron
- Diaspora
- The crash pit
- A changing of he guard
- Leaving the nest
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-555) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781101871553
- 1101871555
- OCLC:
- 980858516
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