A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in 8 Ball Pool Html5. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
