This book tells the story of the first computerized system to assist in the learning process: PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations). The system was created at the beginning of the 1960s, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) was established there with the mission of maintaining PLATO and developing it further. Aside from its original role as a teaching tool, PLATO also evolved surprisingly into a social media platform, with instant messaging, message boards, chat rooms, online newspapers, multiplayer games, and the like, spawning an authentic digital subculture and gathering lots of followers.
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