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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Beginnings

It all started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one night in 1962. The first Soviet Sputnik spacecraft had been launched five years previously, and John F. Kennedy had just promised that America would get to the moon within the decade. Six months earlier, Digital Equipment Corporation had delivered a hulking new mainframe computer, a model PDP-1, to MIT’s electrical engineering lab—an innovative, massively expensive tool for serious scientific research. And by happy chance, there was a revolutionary achievement with that machine: the invention of the world’s first videogame.

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