Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Tetris Turns 25

Posted by timothy on from the where-were-you dept.

teh.f4ll3n writes "25 years ago a Russian (Soviet) researcher thought of one of the world's most popular games. It is now that we celebrate its 25th anniversary. 'Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer — the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 — and began writing programs for it.'"

1 of 177 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Summary by bonch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Even worse, others would make rip-off clones, and he would try to shut them down legally, yet instead of receiving support for his actions, he would get attacked by online idiots such as the ones at Digg. The guy's a perfect example of a developer who had a good idea and got fucked over by piracy.