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Irata.online: A PLATO service for retro computing enthusiasts
- felixgallo 4y agothe Romulan ship near that dead planet made me want to hyper in and dump torps.
- spudlyo 4y agoI immediately searched for "Empire" on that page, and was disappointed until I saw that image. That was always my favorite part of PLATO.
- charles_kaw 4y agoThis is a cool project, but I should feel the need to warn anyone who gets too involved: the main person (T. Cherryhomes) behind this has a weird proclivity to tell people to kill themselves. He's done it to me, my friends, and random other strangers. It's disappointing seeing such a cool projected backed by someone so hostile :(
- JFKKFJ 4y ago
- pinewurst 4y agoUse https://cyber1.org/index.asp https://cyber1.org/index.asp instead and avoid a bad actor.
- tschak909 4y agoLibelous statements like this are not cool. If you have an issue with me, let's hash it out.
- charles_kaw 4y agoMy issue with you is that you post abusively at people in retro computing groups. You have told me to kill myself and I have seen you tell people to f** themselves with a chainsaw. You have the good sense to delete it afterwards, but the damage is done. There is nothing to hash out - I simply seek to warn people to be wary before engaging with you. At least you seem to have stopped spamming the various retro groups. So, that's improvement.
- tschak909 4y agoWhat does that accomplish, for you? You seem to be wanting to damage my reputation because you don't like that I am constantly posting news.
- charles_kaw 4y agoYou're attributing motivations to my actions that don't exist. This exchange wouldn't be happening if you'd only just "constantly posted news". There is a reason you're in various retro computing facebook group killfiles; anyways, this isn't productive to post further about, so I won't.
- tschak 4y agoKillfiles? Really. First I've heard of it. You're really going out of your way to crap on me. I want to know why? -Thom
- charles_kaw 4y ago> You're really going out of your way to crap on me. I want to know why? Your behavior here only reinforces my point. I don't feel that getting into a flame war on HN is productive or good. It apparently needs repeating (and this will be my last post on this subject or in response to you). My issue with you is that you post abusively at people in retro computing groups. You have told me to kill myself and I have seen you tell people to f* themselves with a chainsaw. You have the good sense to delete it afterwards, but the damage is done. There is nothing to hash out - I simply seek to warn people to be wary before engaging with you.
- Duodreamer 4y agoAs such a claim is particularly serious, you are obliged to provide proof.
- jordemort 4y agoAny recipes for self-hosting something like this?
- karmakaze 4y ago"Now landing on the planet Irata." -- M.U.L.E.
- ffyring 4y agoClassic. I still play it today with my friends on a C64 that keeps going after 35 years or so.
- Animats 4y agoDoes the original PLATO educational content still exist? That might be useful. They had good online math classes, supposedly. It's not about emulating the terminal.
- TheNewsIsHere 4y agoMan, this is a blast from the past. PLATO was primarily before I should have any experience but I was a student at a K12 school district that still used it’s early/mid-aughts incarnation. Some lessons from which would, very rarely, be presented in an emulator. A few lessons just never got rewritten with their later runtime.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI was not expecting to read about PLATO on HN today. I was at Illinois for 5 1/2 years, just down Springfield Ave. from the PLATO lab, and yet I never went there except for an experiment in Psych 100. Even working in the Digital Computer Lab, we almost never saw those people. We knew they were doing interesting stuff, but they mostly kept to themselves. My friends had either one class with PLATO (a Latin class) or no classes. There was some discussion in the Internet history mailing list about the supposedly vital contribution that PLATO made to ARPANET. It isn't really true, sorry. PLATO was influential in a lot of areas, but not that one.
- TMWNN 4y ago>There was some discussion in the Internet history mailing list about the supposedly vital contribution that PLATO made to ARPANET. Good grief. The Friendly Orange Glow certainly doesn't claim that, so to hear that people would claim otherwise is mystifying. It's that relative lack of contribution to what would become the Internet that caused PLATO's relative obscurity today in computing history compared to Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT's contributions (and, probably, the chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that I imagine drove the discussion you cite).
- AlbertCory 4y agointernet-history@ is an old-fashioned mailing list, so you can probably read the archives if you want. As I recall, there was someone there who really resisted the consensus that PLATO didn't contribute much.
- felixgallo 4y agowith respect, it contributed immensely. USENET traced a lineage to PLATO notesfiles. That was the http equivalent until http came along.
- AlbertCory 4y agoHow many entries in the RFC index have PLATO developers as authors? It sounds like there should be a few, at least.
- vigo 4y agoI know the one and only irata/TRSI... Is that him?