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I found an empty chair and sat down. I noticed a book on the rack next to me called Our Bodies, Ourselves and made a mental note to buy it in a bookstore.

“He knelt there, regarding himself with awe, and a little pity too, wondering what he was, if he were even human, if, unknown to himself, he had absorbed so much of the mingled alien viewpoint to which he had been subjected that he had become some strange sort of hybrid, a queer kind of galactic half-breed.”

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Absolutely amazing. Incredibly creative, thoughtful and poignant.

Pong contained not a single line of computer code

When little Joey died of dysentery, it meant something. When the cart overturned while fording the river, it was devastating. Like no other game before it, The Oregon Trail transported players to an entirely new world, if only for third-period history class.

In 1942, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia outlawed pinball machines and denigrated pinball pushers as “slimy crews of tinhorns, well dressed and living in luxury on penny thievery.” Pinball was seen as the gateway to gambling, one that corrupted children and set them along the path to drinking and prostitution.