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No it didn't. "Airfight is an early 3D graphics-based multi-user flight simulator, created on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data C

No it didn't. "Airfight is an early 3D graphics-based multi-user flight simulator, created on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data Corporation (CDC) PLATO system in the early 1970s.[1][2][3] The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator and the first multi-player flight simulator.[2] The first version was developed by Brand Fortner with Kevin Gorey in the summer of 1974.[4] After its release, it became the most popular game on PLATO until Empire became more popular. This software probably inspired the UIUC student Bruce Artwick to start the company Sublogic,[4] which was acquired and later became Microsoft Flight Simulator.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfight

eesmith 4y ago
PLATO is the forgotten predecessor to a lot of technology. It had group chat, digital emojis, 3D networked games, touch screen, and more, in the 1970s. To add to the 3D game list, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim : "a 32-player 3D networked space flight simulation game and first-person space shooter[1] developed by Jim Bowery for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974." That is was only available at a few schools, most notably UIUC, helps explain the lack of wide cultural knowledge. For more, read "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture." by HN user brianstorms, or https://spectrum.ieee.org/sxsw-2018-a-look-back-at-the-1960s-plato-computing-system https://spectrum.ieee.org/sxsw-2018-a-look-back-at-the-1960s... (comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615420 ) or https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer... .

eesmith 4y ago

PLATO is the forgotten predecessor to a lot of technology. It had group chat, digital emojis, 3D networked games, touch screen, and more, in the 1970s. To add to the 3D game list, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasim : "a 32-player 3D networked space flight simulation game and first-person space shooter[1] developed by Jim Bowery for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974." That is was only available at a few schools, most notably UIUC, helps explain the lack of wide cultural knowledge. For more, read "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture." by HN user brianstorms, or https://spectrum.ieee.org/sxsw-2018-a-look-back-at-the-1960s-plato-computing-system https://spectrum.ieee.org/sxsw-2018-a-look-back-at-the-1960s... (comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615420 ) or https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer... .