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On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...

Anyone who knows anything about the first games ever made won’t be surprised to hear that Tennis for Two is a supremely simple game. It was invented by American physicist William Higinbotham in 1958, ...

In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

We celebrated plenty of moments in technology history in 2024, from the release of Intel's first blockbuster chip 45 years ago – the 8088 – to 20 years since Google launched Gmail. We even marked the ...

In March 1975, The Eagles' Best of My Love, was the number one song, the top box office movie was The Godfather Part II, and All in the Family was the most popular TV show. However, I was most excited ...

One of the first American videogame magazines is now available for anyone to read, enjoy, and remix thanks to the Video Game History Foundation. Computer Entertainer, which ran from 1982 to 1990, ...