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My mom was a PLATO developer. She wrote computer based learning courses for it. What I remember about PLATO was the games. I think there was one where you coul
by waltbosz 4y ago
My mom was a PLATO developer. She wrote computer based learning courses for it.
What I remember about PLATO was the games. I think there was one where you could drop a flower pot on Mickey Mouse's head. Does that sound familiar to anyone?
- retrocryptid 4y agoDid she write it in Esperanto? I have a vague memory of cartoon characters doing things you typed in. But the developers thought Esperanto was easier to parse, so they made humans learn it to talk to the computer. Jen kial mi lernis esperanton.
- waltbosz 4y agoI was maybe 6 years old at the time. I don't recall what she coded in.
- formvoltron 4y agoWow that's so cool! My Mom certainly was not a developer, but she was studying nursing at little Bay Du Noc college in the upper peninsula of Michigan and AMAZINGLY there was a computer lab there with those orange round plastic machines and it was completely empty save for one guy that gave me an account and allowed me to chat with someone in California via a dungeon game. I must have been about 11 or 12. Looking back I wish I'd spent more hours in that lab.
- waltbosz 4y agoMy first time using the modern Internet was at a computer lab at the University of Delaware. I was 11 years old and I used it to look up tips for playing Mortal Combat. My PLATO usage also occurred at UD labs. I was even part of a photo shoot for a kid's PLATO summer camp. (I didn't get to attend the camp)