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First Video Game?
October 21, 2008
Fifty years ago, before either arcades or home video games, visitors waited in line at Brookhaven National Laboratory to play Tennis for Two, an electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game's creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
October 21, 2008
Fifty years ago, before either arcades or home video games, visitors waited in line at Brookhaven National Laboratory to play Tennis for Two, an electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game's creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
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31st May 2009 - Millvina Dean - the last living survivor of the Titanic sinking dies at the age of 97 in a nursing home in Southampton.
Millvina was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic set sail - and it wasn’t til she was 8 she was told she had been on the Titanic and sadly that’s where her father had perished.
Millvina, her mother and her brother were placed in lifeboat 10 and were amongst the first steerage passengers to get off of the sinking liner. They were rescued by the Carpathia arriving safely in New York on April 18th.
Millvina was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic set sail - and it wasn’t til she was 8 she was told she had been on the Titanic and sadly that’s where her father had perished.
Millvina, her mother and her brother were placed in lifeboat 10 and were amongst the first steerage passengers to get off of the sinking liner. They were rescued by the Carpathia arriving safely in New York on April 18th.
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