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"...on explaining Religion to Techies" deserves a creation myth. Please help me to get this correct: Day 1: Edison invents electricity Day 2: Atari invented P
by Theodores 13y ago
"...on explaining Religion to Techies" deserves a creation myth. Please help me to get this correct:
Day 1: Edison invents electricity
Day 2: Atari invented Pong
Day 3: Intel invented the CPU
Day 4: IBM invented the PC
Day 5: Bill Gates gave birth to Windows
Day 6: Al Gore invented the internet
- Aqueous 13y agoCan someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU? I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in the original 7 day creation story.
- gaius 13y agoThe did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.
- Aqueous 13y agoI see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware. Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.
- jentulman 13y agoAnd on the seventh day, REST