A strange little side quest
Between one round of Extreme Taz Skateboard Halfpipe and the next, this is worth knowing: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.
