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  2. PLATO (computer system) - Wikipedia

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    PLATO ( Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations ), [1] [2] also known as Project Plato [3] and Project PLATO, was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system. Starting in 1960, it ran on the University of Illinois 's ILLIAC I computer. By the late 1970s, it supported several thousand graphics terminals distributed ...

  3. List of video game developers - Wikipedia

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    Midway Games: Chicago: Illinois: United States 1988 Mortal Kombat series NFL Blitz series As of 2012, Midway is a corporation existing under Delaware law subject to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy liquidation plan Midway Studios – Newcastle: Gateshead: England: United Kingdom 1996 Test Drive 4–6: Defunct in 2009 Might and Delight: Stockholm: Sweden ...

  4. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.

  5. Ed Boon - Wikipedia

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    Boon is of Hispanic descent, from the Dominican Republic. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduation, he was employed by Williams Entertainment in their pinball department, working on approximately 20 pinball games over the next two years.

  6. Early history of video games - Wikipedia

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    The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ( Pong and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox ...

  7. University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The University of Chicago. /  41.78972°N 87.59972°W  / 41.78972; -87.59972. The University of Chicago ( UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [10] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. The university has its main campus in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. [11] [12]

  8. MUSH - Wikipedia

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    PennMUSH developed from TinyMUD and PernMUSH at University of Pennsylvania, and later at University of California, Berkeley and University of Illinois at Chicago. TinyMUSH 3.0 through 3.3 (currently in alpha stage of development) derive from a merger of TinyMUSH 2.2.5 and TinyMUX 1.6, both of which ultimately derive from TinyMUD.

  9. Iron Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC is an American video game developer studio founded on August 14, 2008, and based in Chicago, Illinois, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida that was opened in 2012, a third studio in Nashville, Tennessee in 2022, and a fourth in Austin, Texas. Iron Galaxy often collaborates with publishers and developers to provide ...