YouTube - Discovering the birthplace of social networks: PLATO

A timely social networking reality check (video interview by Robert Scoble)

Here Brian Dear, organizer of PLATO at 50 conference, looks back to the "birthplace of social media," the PLATO system, which had many of the things we have today on Facebook and Twitter albeit back in the 1970s, etc. Learn more here: http://platohistory.org/ Brian is on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/brianstorms