when was computer gaming created ?????????
In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a vIn October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. Higinbotham was born on October 25, 1910, in Bridgeport, CT and grew up in Caledonia, NY. He graduated from Williams College in 1932 and then went to graduate school in physics at Cornell University. At Cornell, as a graduate student, he worked as an electronics technician. In 1941, he joined the MIT Radiation Lab, where he worked on cathode ray tube displays for radar systems. In 1943 he moved to Los Alamos to work on electronics for a timing system for the atomic bomb. In 1948 he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory’s instrumentation group. He served as head of that group from 1951 to 1968. very simple tennis game, ...
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