A strange little side quest
A quick detour while How to Draw: Ivandoe waits for your next move: The Oregon Trail began in 1971 when three student teachers created a computer simulation to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American history. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That gives How to Draw: Ivandoe a little more company than it first appears to have.
