• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    The first video games were created in the 50s, and the precursors to them (like slot machines) are decades older. We are probably pretty close to that already.

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      2 months ago

      They might have existed, but few people actually played them or even knew about them then. Slot machines don’t count, no video!

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Eh, that’s like saying robots have existed for thousands of years because we’ve found ancient automata

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        2 months ago

        I disagree. It’s more like correctly pointing out that fax machines were invented in the 1800s for the telegraph despite that they weren’t used that much for decades.