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History of Video Games

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-read dept.

seer writes "There's a nice history of videogames over at GameSpot. It starts with pre-videogame activity in 1889 with the Marufuku Company (later Nintendo) and stretches to the recently released GameCube-DVD system." Hey, it's sunday. No reason to knock yourself out reading the works of ancient philosophers (unless you're taking Ancient Philosophers 230 and have an exam this week).

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  1. Dear Jon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jon, due riechst so gut!

  2. The Slashdot Repeat Event Horizon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    As we all know, some chemical in the air at Slashdot Headquarters is causing Cmdr Taco et al to do more and more and more full repeats and what I call semi repeats (see also here). Semi-repeats are due to Slashdot's uncontrollable urge to advertise every time GameSpot or ArsTechnica or osOpinion comes out with Yet Another Permutation of The Same Crap. Slashdot: official advertising agency for GameSpot.

    Lately the repeats have become so numerous that Slashdot has been repeating its repeats! Which gives me pause for thought. If present trends continue, and the fumes get strong enough down at /.HQ, we will reach the point where every single story will be a repeat. I call this the Slashdot Repeat Event Horizon.

    There are some interesting predicted Effects of the Event Horizon. First off, since there have only been a finite number of stories on /. so far, this means that at some point in the Event Horizon all the repeats will be repeats of repeats. I call this point in time the Slashdot Repeated Repeat Event Horizon.

    Second, these repeats will continue despite everyone's pointing it out to /.; at some point everyone except for the Profoundly Stupid will cease to be interested in reading the Same Old Crap Over and Over and Over Again, and abandon the site. This will cause Slashdot comments to contain a higher and higher concentration of FIRST POST, goatse, and "repeat!" posts; eventually these posts will consume the entire /. comment space. Oh, wait, that's already happened. Never mind.

    This predicted drop in readership will also cause a drop in the /. Effect. I recently asked a good friend of mine whose site has been repeat-slashdot-posted four times now (I have another one who's been repeat-slashdot-posted seven times -- strong fumes, there) and he's now pretty unimpressed with the /. Effect. Tells me it's barely a blip now. He hadn't realized it was because the only people following the link were 13 year old eleet hackers now reading Slashdot for the first time!