From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Probably the World's First Online Community (1973)

Probably the world's first online community begins to emerge through online forums, and the message board called PLATO Notes developed by David Woolley, in the PLATO IV system evolving at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

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