2019-Fall/Winter

American Archivist

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture

2019-09-25

Quartz Obsession

PLATO

2019-08-13

KFAN-radio Video Games Weekly show (Minneapolis, MN)

Interview with Brian Dear on the gaming scene on PLATO in the 1970s

2019-07-12

The Retro Hour Podcast

PLATO: The Greatest Computer Network You've Never Heard Of - Episode EP181 (An interview with Brian Dear)

2019-01-02

SLATE magazine

Watergate Was the World's First Hashtag

2018-03-27

Killer Innovations Podcast

PLATO: The Creation of Online Community and the Orange Glow (interview with author)

2018-03-12

Die Zeit

Aus Plato hatte unser Internet werden konnen

2018-03-12

IEEE Spectrum

SXSW 2018: A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System

2018-02-16

Technotopia: "Meet the coolest computer in the world with Brian Dear"

TechCrunch / Technotopia podcast

2018-01-11

WICN 90.5 FM "Inquiry" Show hosted by Mark Lynch: "Brian Dear: The Friendly Orange Glow"

(Worcester, MA) WICN 'Inquiry' radio show & podcast

2017-12-27

WIRED's Backchannel votes THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW as one of its "Top Tech Books of 2017"

WIRED.com

2017-12-23

"C-SPAN's BookTV recording of author's Friendly Orange Glow presentation recorded 11/27 at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C."

BookTV / C-SPAN

2017-12-23

"When Spock met PLATO" (excerpt from THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW published on Wired.com's Backchannel site)

WIRED.com

2017-12-19

"'The Friendly Orange Glow' attracts renewed attention to CSL invention"

Coordinated Science Laboratory

2017-12-17

"InDeepRadio interview with Angie Coiro (Recorded 2017-11-08 at Menlo College)"

LISTEN HERE

2017-12-15

"Triangulation 325: Brian Dear" (video podcast interview: 93 min)

twit.tv

2017-12-12

"Before Apple, There Was PLATO"

Santa Fe New Mexican

2017-12-10

"The Forgotten Story of PLATO, wth Brian Dear"

The Internet History Podcast

2017-12-08

"Review: Plato's Friendly Orange Glow"

The Wall Street Journal

2017-12-01

Groks Science Radio Show and Podcast

groks.net

2017-11-24

"Book Review: The Friendly Orange Glow""

Open Letters Monthly

2017-11-22

"Book Review: The Internet That Wasn't"

Nature, the International Journal of Science

2017-11-20

"Reddit AMA with Brian Dear, author of The Friendly Orange Glow"

reddit.com

2017-11-19

"How a Little Known Computer Network System Changed The History of the Internet"

Salon.com

2017-11-15

"Shanghai's Untold Story"

Tedium.com

2017-11-14

"The Web Before the Web: On Writing The Friendly Orange Glow"

Signature Reads

2017-11-13

"The Greatest Computer Network You've Never Heard Of"

Motherboard

2017-11-10

"Author bringing love letter to UI's PLATO system to its birthplace"

Champaign-Urbana, IL News-Gazette

2017-11-10

"New Book Details the Friendly Orange Glow of U of I's PLATO System""

WILL-FM radio, Urbana, IL

2017-11-09

"A computer revolution: Brian Dear tells the story of PLATO"

Champaign-Urbana, IL Smile Politely