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I highly recommend The Dream Machine[0] for an in-depth chronicle of the connections and influences that brought early computing to where it is today. [0]: htt

• throw_PLUTO 6y ago
  Good one. For an even earlier history, one should read 'The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture' by Brian Dear. The author spent decades researching and interviewing the pioneers. The PLATO system had chat rooms, instant messaging, screen savers, multiplayer games, flight simulators, crowdsourcing, interactive fiction, emoticons, e-learning (like MOOCs) etc.