Public Chat vs Private Message
In short: From Talkomatic on PLATO in 1973 to the IRC protocol of 1993, this film traces how a public chat room and a private one-to-one message came to sit side by side more than three decades ago.
A 2:00 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica”; HandWiki, “Software:Talkomatic”; RFC Editor (Internet Engineering Task Force RFC series; RFC 1459 by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed), “RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol | RFC Editor”; Taylor & Francis (Internet Histories journal), article by Steve Jones and Guillaume Latzko-Toth, “Out from the PLATO cave: uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- HandWiki — Software:Talkomatic · View →
- RFC Editor (Internet Engineering Task Force RFC series; RFC 1459 by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed) — RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol | RFC Editor · View →
- Taylor & Francis (Internet Histories journal), article by Steve Jones and Guillaume Latzko-Toth — Out from the PLATO cave: uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: HandWiki: Software:Talkomatic
- Also: RFC Editor (Internet Engineering Task Force), RFC 1459 by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed: RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol | RFC Editor
- Also: Taylor & Francis (Internet Histories journal), article by Steve Jones and Guillaume Latzko-Toth: Out from the PLATO cave: uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing
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