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jan 1, 1960 - Release of the Version I PLATO Computer-Assisted Instruction System

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This was the very first networked mainframe computer and by the late 1970s, it supported several thousand graphics terminals distributed worldwide. This was the foundation laid towards multi-user computing.

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Date:

jan 1, 1960
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~ 66 years ago

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