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bmonkey325 4 days ago | parent

Fun fact about Plato on the Atari. The deeper you went the darker the background colors got and the lighter the foreground text became.

ddingus 4 days ago
That is pretty neat! Are you talking about the PLATO cartridge software?
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- bmonkey325 3 days ago
  That was my understanding. It’s a shame that Plato didn’t become mass market. Imagine a timeline where AOL wasn’t the Internet for most people
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  - ddingus 1 day ago
    Yeah. I would have used the crap out of that system.
    It looks really neat!
    Instead, I was BBS'Ing and eventually online proper in 91, using gateway systems prior.
    And of course USENET was where the action was!
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