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1960
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- The very first computer game. The Think-A-Tron is capable
of a simple question-and-answer game, using small punch cards. The
machine operates on batteries and costs seven dollar.
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1962
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- Spacewar, the first multi-user computer game. It used ASCII textsymbols
for graphics. Steve Russel, working at MIT, develops the first version
that runs on a DEC "PDP-1" mini-computer. The game has been
continously "under construction". DEC donated the computer to
the MIT, expecting the research insitute to do something good with it. Spacewar
has in many ways lived up to this expectation. Spacewar remains
an experiment within the laboratoria. It was designed to challenge the
boundaries of the computers of its time.
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1963
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- The first standard in the computer industry is the "American
Standard Code for Information" (ASCII). It will take another
fifteen years before this standard has become common.
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1966
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- First experimental TV / Computer interface sends two blips moving
across a televisionscreen.
- Douglas Carl Engelbart, researcher at the Stanford Research
Institute (SRI), designs the first mouse during a research on hardware
interfaces. With financial support of NASA this concept has been further
developed. The license has been sold to Apple for $ 40.000,=.
- Ralph Baer, working at Sanders Associates, an American Army
defense company, invents the first videogame, which further developed in
1967 into an electronic hockey game. It was the first concept of
interactive videogames.
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1967
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- Original Adventure
mainframe maze game
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1968
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- Writer Arthur C. Clarke introduces "HAL", the computer
of the future in the film 2001. A Space Odyssey. HAL was based on
hte ideas on artifical intelligence of I.J. Good and Marvin Minsky.
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