Here is the slidedeck from my session: “When Plato Left The Cave – A brief history of Lotus Notes”.

Thanks to all who attended.

And here is the talk for the first slides

13.7 bllion years BL – Before Lotus User Groups –
on a Friday
at approximately 8:20 pm
the universe was born

For a long time PI was the best thing since sliced bread

A couple of years later – in 1974 –

In a Harvard dormitory, Bill Gates is goofing off playing poker and pinball.
His habit to always be late gave us pictures like this one.

To earn some money he started selling softener at local stores but found that selling software could increase his income dramatically.
On April, 4 th 1975 he gathered together some friends and founded Microsoft.
Would you have invested in this company ?

Over in India, Steve Jobs, future cofounder of Apple, has shaved his head and is wandering around seeking enlightenment.
His style didn’t change much over the years. Apple’s products are stylish and shiny. But it turns out that you have to hold them in some special way so they will work as expected.

Out in Hawaii, Steve Case, future cofounder and head of AOL Time Warner, is busy writing album reviews for his Honolulu high school newspaper.
If his review is cause for a foto like this is unknown.

While these future billionaire CEOs of Internet-industry behemoths are busy enjoying their last teenage years, at a university town in Illinois the ‘Net’ has already arrived. Indeed: it’s in full swing!

Out here in the middle of cornfield country, there’s a rich, vibrant online community of teachers, professors, hackers, slackers, pranksters, and software and hardware engineers thriving on email, chat rooms, instant messaging, addictive multiplayer games, multimedia, news, movie reviews, and message forums on everything from art, science, and literature, to sex, drugs, and rock and roll. How can this be?

Welcome to PLATO.
Sorry, we are not going to talk about this guy, although there are some really interesting quotes …