A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Troll Face Quest: Video Memes and Tv Shows: Part, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in 1984 after drawing inspiration from pentomino puzzles, then simplified the idea around shapes made from four squares. 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 Troll Face Quest: Video Memes and Tv Shows: Part is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer puzzles timeline.
