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The PLATO Notes opening screen as it appeared about 1976. Also from David Wooley's website.
A: Urbana, Illinois, United States
David Wooley at the printer in the CERL PLATO computer room circa 1973 from Wooley's autobiographical website "Just Think of IT. Droplets of inspiration plucked from the firehose."
Probably the world's first online community began to emerge in 1973 through online forums, and the message board called PLATO Notes developed by David R. Woolley, in the PLATO IV system evolving at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Brian Dear, The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (2017).