While I was working with David “PLATO Notes” Woolley on starting up a company to write a conferencing system that would run on a 4.77MHz IBM PC (Fora (I ended up going live on a 7MHz – but that’s another story)) he joined the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link to see if it had any of the social networking flavor of PLATO. He reported back that it was pathetic:
“Everyone was arguing over whether the toilet paper should be oriented to dispense toward or away from the toilet.”