Hi ya'll: (1) I never finished watching the series but I was taken back by how big of a deal they present the online gaming development intrigue of that time. I never joined one of those services back then, so I may be totally ignorant of a whole subculture I never got exposed to, but was it really that big of a deal? Was it as compelling as the video series suggests? Did they make very creative use of the C64's abilities that is also suggested? I didn't think so, I never was exposed to the "buzz" of it but I might have just be oblivious. (2) I didn't know anything about PLATO back in the day either, but that, in retrospect seems like it was the promising online system for multi user gaming by creating a terminal environment to encapsulate the experience not unlike how Web browsers did later.