I had my first job programming Plato at UofD. I had my second job building hardware for replacing the old expensive terminals with pcs running the same hardware. A few years later, I came to silicon valley to help the people who put tcp/ip on the Macintosh fight the networking war ( spoiler, tcp/ip won ).
Plato had community, and I even bought my first computer from a guy in illinois. There was a form of live chat that even spanned different universities, there were Friday afternoon massively multi player flight simulator battles. in the late 70's.
let me give you a quick taste of programming in Tutor. Variables were strings, integers, and shared ( same value for everyone in the program, used for multiuser experiences ). there were 150 integers, called i1, i2, and whatnot. There were no symbolic variables.
Since you didn't have to make a network call to communicate between users ( that came with the draconian unix process model ), you could make shared experiences far more easily than today.
Plato had community, and I even bought my first computer from a guy in illinois. There was a form of live chat that even spanned different universities, there were Friday afternoon massively multi player flight simulator battles. in the late 70's.
let me give you a quick taste of programming in Tutor. Variables were strings, integers, and shared ( same value for everyone in the program, used for multiuser experiences ). there were 150 integers, called i1, i2, and whatnot. There were no symbolic variables.
Since you didn't have to make a network call to communicate between users ( that came with the draconian unix process model ), you could make shared experiences far more easily than today.
Ah well.