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Beer is recorded in the written history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt and is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages. [75]Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting mainly of a barley gruel mixture with various additives, sometimes written as having psychoactive properties associated with religious visions.
The large collection of recipes De re coquinaria, conventionally titled Apicius, appeared in the 4th or 5th century and is the only complete surviving cookbook from the classical world. [5] It lists the courses served in a meal as Gustatio (appetizer), Primae Mensae (main course) and Secundae Mensae (dessert). [ 6 ]
The console and its games featured numerous innovations beyond being the first video game device for home consumers: it was the first game to use a raster-scan video display, or television set, directly displayed via modification of a video signal; it was also the first video gaming device to be displayed in a television commercial. [66]
Pong was the first arcade video game to ever receive universal acclaim. Concurrently, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney had the idea of making a coin-operated system to run Spacewar! By 1971, the two had developed Computer Space with Nutting Associates, the first arcade video game. [7] Bushnell and Dabney struck out on their own and formed Atari.
The rules of Contract bridge were originally published in 1925, the game having been derived from Bridge games with rules published as early as 1886, Bridge games, in turn, having evolved from the earlier game of Whist. The first documented game of poker dates from an 1833 Mississippi river steamer. [78]
The oldest, found in the Archives cantonales du Valais (Sion, Switzerland), was written in the late 13th or very early 14th century, and was largely overlooked until the 1950s. [2] It is this manuscript that calls into question the authorship of Tirel, but a portion of it is missing at the beginning, so the title and author given for this ...
The Sumerian Game: 1964: Mabel Addis, William McKay: The first edutainment game. Unnamed American football game [1] 1968 or before: Unknown: For the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. One of "many games" in library of 500 programs. The Sumer Game: 1968: Doug Dyment: AKA Hamurabi: Highnoon: 1970: Christopher Gaylo: Baseball: 1971: Don Daglow: Oregon ...
Bertie the Brain was a video game version of tic-tac-toe, built by Dr. Josef Kates for the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition. [1] Kates had previously worked at Rogers Majestic designing and building radar tubes during World War II, then after the war pursued graduate studies in the computing center at the University of Toronto while continuing to work at Rogers Majestic. [2]