IRATA Online is a free PLATO service catering to retro-computing enthusiasts. It requires a free PLATOTerm client to access and while clients for modern Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms exist, IRATA Online has made available open-source clients for all sorts of 8- and 16-bit computers from the past.
Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations, or PLATO, was originally a multi-user computer-based teaching platform developed at the University of Illinois in 1960. Within two decades, it was hosted on multiple networked mainframes with thousands of terminals around the world. In addition to providing interactive educational resources, PLATO also offered resources such as discussion forums, inter-user chat, and its own in-service programming language, TUTOR, that users could use to create their own lessons. Needless to say, where there is a programming language there will be games written in that language, and TUTOR was no exception.
In 1980, home computer software for accessing the PLATO system began to be distributed for many of the popular microcomputers of the era, with the system being marketed as a home education tool. It is this era on which IRATA Online is focused.
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