{"id":891537,"date":"2024-12-28T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=891537"},"modified":"2024-12-28T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T03:53:44","slug":"donald-bitzer-unsung-pioneer-of-interactive-computing-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/28\/donald-bitzer-unsung-pioneer-of-interactive-computing-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Bitzer, unsung pioneer of interactive computing, dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Bitzer, an electrical engineer whose groundbreaking computer system PLATO, developed in the 1960s and \u201970s at the University of Illinois, was a telegram from the digital future that combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays, died on December 10 at his home in Cary, North Carolina. He was 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Bitzer, an electrical engineer whose groundbreaking computer system PLATO, developed in the 1960s and \u201970s at the University of Illinois, was a telegram from the digital future that combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays, died on December 10 at his home in Cary, North Carolina. He was 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}