Dear, Brian
The Friendly Orange Glow
- ISBN 13:
- 9781101973639
- author:
- Dear, Brian
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Vintage Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 640
- Dimensions:
- 132 mm X 203 mm
- Genre:
- 20.3 x 13.2 centimetres (0.58 kg, Nonfiction, Technology, Nonfiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture By Brian Dear In the late 1960s and 1970s, a group of visionary engineers and designers created a computer system called PLATO that was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. This pioneering work laid the foundation for what we now collectively engage in as cyberculture. The PLATO community made significant hardware breakthroughs and software innovations, including chat rooms, instant messaging, multiplayer games, online newspapers, interactive fiction, and emoticons. Their development of this computer system had a profound impact on the social interconnectivity of computers, well before the creation of the internet. This book tells the fascinating story of the remarkable accomplishments and inspiring personal stories of the PLATO community. The Friendly Orange Glow provides an instructive case study of technological innovation and disruption, project management, and missed opportunities. It reveals new perspectives on the origins of social computing and our internet-infatuated world.
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