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April 30, 2021 Tales of the early days of the first digital video game. Sometimes it’s only a short sentence, a few words dropped as an aside, which changes our understanding. A short glimpse, which provides deeper inside and understanding in what is a complex process. As it is here the case regarding how Spacewar!, the first digital video game became this remarkable program that gave birth to an entire industry. As usually, what was intended to be just a brief dump of an idea — at least, t...

Yanga SC defeated Biashara Mara United by a solitary goal in the Tanzania Mainland League on Saturday night.

featured Tell & See: National Poetry Day 2020 visionary poetry resource Explore Diamonds by Evelyn Byrne, a commended poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019 with the help of shiny fish, and celebrate this years National Poetry Day, with the theme of Vision. Download featured Eco-poetry National Poetry Competition writing resource from Pascale Petit Explore two National Poetry Competition prize-winning poems that address ecological themes with poet, teacher and former NPC judge Pas...

Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate Alyssa Miller Wed 3 Mar 2021 // 11:00 UTC Share Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: a motion is proposed, the argument for the motion is published today, and the argument against will be published on Friday. During the week you can cast y...

A story of trains, computers, and two images. This is at the same time a continuation to what may become a loose series, namely, “Things on the Web that aren’t what they seem to be”, and the beginning of an entirely new one. Anyway, this is the story of two photos that are rather well known in the context of computer history. You may even have seen one or the other popping up on a website. Since you are reading this blog, you may be even familiar with the broader context. Context In 1961,...

Home UK ports demand help for British fish exporters UK ports demand help for British fish exporters Operators call on London and Paris to sort out Brexit-related bureaucracy World Economy News 19 Jan 2021 • 2 min read British ports on Monday called on the UK government to begin an “urgent discussion” with France to reduce Brexit-related bureaucracy when exporting fish to the EU. The demand came as Scottish fishing businesses staged a pr...

Spacewar! Screenshot: This is a virtual DEC PDP-1 emulated in HTML5/JavaScript running the original code of "Spacewar!", the earliest known digital video game. If available, use gamepads or joysticks (currently Chrome and Firefox only, see instructions-memo below) for authentic gameplay — the game was originally played using custom control boxes. Spacewar! was conceived in 1961 by Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen. It was first realized on the PDP-1 in 1962 by Stephen Rus...