In 1962, Steve "Slug" Russell and bunch of his buddy hackers created Spacewar! on a DEC PDP-1 mainframe computer at MIT, and went down in history as creating the first widely distributed, fully interactive video game. On my site I've linked to an online version of the original, running on a PDP-1 emulator written in Javascript in 1997. The creators of this homage have recently upgraded the code to Java/HTML5. Why not put a buddy in front of your computer with you and see what fragging a friend felt like when Kennedy was President?
For more information on Spacewar! and those kooky hackers that made it, consult your local TDE article here.
Play Spacewar! online.
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