Good morning,
The forecast from Whitewater, Wisconsin calls for a rainy day with a high of forty-seven degrees.
The City of Whitewater will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. to present a draft of a Lakes Protection Plan for Trippe and Cravath Lakes. The meeting agenda is available online.
It’s a half day of school throughout our public schools today, making this a half, but not a full, pajama day.
Wired recalls that in 1972, the same year that Richard Nixon was re-elected, and balancing that mistake with something good,
Pong, the first popular videogame, is released in its original arcade-game form.
If it seems crude by today’s standards, well, it was crude then, too. And it was meant to be. Pong was the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell, a founder of Atari, who was inspired to develop it after playing an electronic table-tennis game at a trade show. But, having recently designed an arcade game he deemed too complicated because you had to read the instructions before you could play, Bushnell strove for utter simplicity.
November 1972 was a year of stark contrasts.
What was Pong like? Like this –