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Pong is 34 years old today! Happy Birthday Pong!

Published on 2005-11-29 by Mark VandeWettering

According to digg, pong is celebrating its 34th anniversary today. Feh. I’m older than that.

Sniffle.

Bonus links: Wikipedia has some nice info, including a link to William Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two game developed at Brookhaven National Labs.

Oh, and the animated gif on the right? Screendumps from the CHIP-8 emulator I wrote a few years back.

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