From cf37ebafb0e0a6975ebdcda93d946381d49cef5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P. J. McDermott Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:29:24 -0500 Subject: Note that Spacewar! was itself a hack. --- diff --git a/researched-outline.txt b/researched-outline.txt index 4339dd5..cd6d80e 100644 --- a/researched-outline.txt +++ b/researched-outline.txt @@ -80,9 +80,12 @@ in the beginning, there was freedom - ~02:00 Spacewar! space shooter with realistic physics that showed power of PDP-1 written by Steve Russel in 1961-1962 + a traditional hack + goofy and random, with no use other than as a diversion MIT hackers freely shared game [Quinn, 316] [CHM-Spacewar!] + [Williams-RMS, 211] TODO: something about sharing software like sugar [Williams-RMS, 5] Unix originally written in 1969 to run on PDP-7 -- cgit v0.9.1