One thing that Notes did better than modern threaded comment systems or web forums was that it had a sequencer that would allow you to quickly jump to and read whatever new responses and/or notes that were created since the last time you read Notes.
I never used Notes on Plato, but it was faithfully recreated on The Evergreen State College's timeshared BASIC system running on an HP3000, and then again to an AOS/VS based DG Eclipse MV10000 system. My best friends today are all people I met on Notes in the 80s. In high school my pal and I spent a summer vacation coding a Notes-like system (including sequencer) for a NewDos/80 GREENEMACHINE BBS. Good times.
I feel lucky to have spent time in the 80s learning about Plato (ok, mostly EMPIRE) on aging dusty terminals in the back of TESC's terminal room. Glad to see that you can still interact with it via cyber1.org. Can't wait for my account to get created.
I never used Notes on Plato, but it was faithfully recreated on The Evergreen State College's timeshared BASIC system running on an HP3000, and then again to an AOS/VS based DG Eclipse MV10000 system. My best friends today are all people I met on Notes in the 80s. In high school my pal and I spent a summer vacation coding a Notes-like system (including sequencer) for a NewDos/80 GREENEMACHINE BBS. Good times.
I feel lucky to have spent time in the 80s learning about Plato (ok, mostly EMPIRE) on aging dusty terminals in the back of TESC's terminal room. Glad to see that you can still interact with it via cyber1.org. Can't wait for my account to get created.