A strange little side quest
Put Flirting Masquerade next to the history of fashion and style and a few unexpected connections appear. In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Flirting Masquerade is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer fashion and style timeline.
