Terrific reading. More broadly, the PLATO system deserves far more credit than it's received for pioneering a set of technologies and software we take for granted today (text-based chat, screen sharing, multi-player games, for instance) that we largely take for granted today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

I started at NC State the same year Donald Bitzer came to the university. I took Discrete Math from him. Very cool guy.

We are still loving our 15yo 52” Panasonic plasma TV. Hope it lasts another 15yrs and we never have to own a smart tv full of spyware!