@spiralganglion there's an interesting counterpoint here in PLATO, which was a timesharing mainframe system, but the developers of it went to great lengths to make it simultaneous multi-user and user friendly, and by the time it was deployed in the mid to late 60s, it was motivating kids to commit felonies (mostly breaking and entering) to get access to it
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@spiralganglion theres some irony here, because they were deployed and wildly popular amongst vernacular users of computers long before Kay's ideas were, and there was a strange rivalry between them in how they approached computers as tools for learning and thought