A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Twisted Tennis, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. And the history keeps stacking up: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
