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Senior Computer Scientist @ Adobe, but opinions my own. He/him. Bob Dornan once denounced me personally on the floor of the House of Representatives.

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Video Game History Foundation

      You can't count Charles Babbage's Tic-Tac-Toe program for the Analytical Engine come on He never actually finished building the machine, it's vaporwarehttps://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/1337551391007490048 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Video Game History FoundationVerified account @GameHistoryOrg
      What - really - was the first video game? @museumofplay's @jpdysonplay takes on this 'classic' question: https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/2020/11/what-was-the-first-video-game … pic.twitter.com/ARgwvN29j4
      2 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
      Tim Pierce‏ @qwrrty 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Hell, why not go back to the Mechanical Turk of 1770? Never mind that it was a scam, people *thought* they were playing a machine, and isn't that what really counts?

      4:39 PM - 11 Dec 2020
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      • Lenoxus Justice Herbert-Wattie Horrible Checkers Lad Appreciator
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        2. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @qwrrty @arthur_affect

          I mean, a “scam,” it really was a brilliant piece of engineering being operated by a person who was a truly brilliant chess player, able to play a game on a board he couldn’t really see, whilst uncomfortably hiding in a cabinet

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. Lenoxus‏ @Lenoxus 12 Dec 2020
          Replying to @lawnerdbarak @qwrrty @arthur_affect

          The human mind is the original video game

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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