PLATO (Electronic computer system)

found: Work cat.: 2017013007: Dear, B. The friendly orange glow, 2017:ECIP summary (The remarkable untold story of PLATO, the computer program and platform created in the 1960s, that marked the true beginning of cyberculture) preface (PLATO was a project designed to see if a computer could teach a student as well if not better than a human teacher)

found: Tech Target, viewed March 29, 2017(PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), a computer-based training (CBT) network developed in the 1960s, is often credited as the earliest example of a virtual community . Preceding both the Internet and the bulletin board system (BBS), PLATO was created by Professor Don Bitzer at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois and was further developed by other university faculty and students)