IRATA.ONLINE: a PLATO-based online community for retro-enthusiasts
This looks like a lot of fun:
http://www.irata.online/
This fascinating experiment in retro-computing brings online a system based around the archaic PLATO computing system, which was a pre-cursor of the Internet and in many ways a pioneer of features we, even still today, take for granted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
PLATO featured a Multi-user, subject-ordered messaging/bulletin system, built-in development tools, graphics and hypertext before they were even a thing...
Most fascinating to the average HN reader, perhaps, might be the docs - here as example of the tenacity of a forgotten era, an intro to the TUTOR programming language, around which PLATO is based:
http://www.irata.online/assets/Introduction_to_Tutor-937ef6097482f2c79f790977c80516e1bd11bb52178baec607a4c34860b3969b.pdf
Could we resurrect these technologies in this day and age, and thus solve ourselves the Facebook problem? Perhaps there are gems yet to learn from these pioneers ..
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