Community Memory [1], a counter-cultural timesharing system in the Bay Area in the early 1970s, was perhaps a step toward something like what this article discu

Community Memory [1], a counter-cultural timesharing system in the Bay Area in the early 1970s, was perhaps a step toward something like what this article discusses. Also the PLATO [2] system might have evolved into something like that. But microprocessors became available in the mid- and late-1970s and the focus shifted away from time-sharing to personal computers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)