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Paolo AmorosoAn online exhibition of historically significant Internet artifacts such as the 1977 ARPANET map, the first smiley, the first MP3, the first Amazon order, and more. A nicely curated and designed collection.
Andrew Dalke@amoroso Little known fact - PLATO users had emoji years before the first smiley on the internet: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-revisited.html
I keep meaning to read "The Friendly Orange Glow". Both my undergrad and grad school back in the early 1990s had PLATO terminals, including with (simple) touch screens, but I only used it tangentially.
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)In undergrad (FSU) I mostly saw them used for computer-based learning/practice in college algebra. (I worked at the math help center.)
In grad school (Illinois) they were much more widely used, with interactive learning courses, networked grade books (including setting bell curve grade thresholds), and more.
When I see computer-based education at my kid's elementary school, it doesn't seem like the actual pedagogy has significantly improved since 1980s micros and PLATO.
@dalke The Friendly Orange Glow is a great book, I love it too.
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That 1977 ARPANET map brings back memories -- that was when I first used Arpanet, and not long after I started really seriously exploring everything in the CS universe.
I was at Berkeley, and it allowed me to access MIT and Stanford, where they were doing quite different things.
@dougmerritt Back then things were ate the same time simpler and unknown.