so you think intereractive communities are a recent development

Was Googling for former colleagues and stumbled across a couple of sites that took me back to my computer roots. Long before the internet achieved critical mass, there was a worldwide network of computers -- with true and fully exploited collaborative, interactive capability. The network was called PLATO and I cut my computing teeth on it. If you don't know anything about PLATO, you should.

Link: PLATO People: A History Book Research Project.

Link: ClassicGaming.com - The History of Computer Gaming - Part 5.