[81alum]

I am glad to hear about this piece of history.

In 1977 I watched as friends hacked into the ARPA net from LOTS and played chess on the MIT computer.  I have thought about that moment often in the years since the internet began to dominate our lives.  But the ARPAnet dated from 1969, so it was somewhat old hat by 1977.

I believe it was the same year (or 1978) when I visited SAIL with my computer science girl friend of the time and saw a cool game on a big round screen.  She called it "Asteroids."  The Atari hit came out in 1979--what the association was with SAIL I never knew.

[81alum]

I am glad to hear about this piece of history.

In 1977 I watched as friends hacked into the ARPA net from LOTS and played chess on the MIT computer.  I have thought about that moment often in the years since the internet began to dominate our lives.  But the ARPAnet dated from 1969, so it was somewhat old hat by 1977.

I believe it was the same year (or 1978) when I visited SAIL with my computer science girl friend of the time and saw a cool game on a big round screen.  She called it "Asteroids."  The Atari hit came out in 1979--what the association was with SAIL I never knew.