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December 8, 2012
In the Beginning There Was Pong
"On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California, and a multi-billion-dollar industry was born. Here's how that happened, direct from the freaks and geeks who invented a culture and paved the way for today's tech moguls, writes BuzzFeed's Chris Stokel-Walker. For details, see Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang. [JH]
December 8, 2012 in Information Technology | Permalink
