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Color photo of an oscilloscope running Higinbotham's "Tennis for Two" game. A horizontal line represents the ground, a short vertical line is the net, and a small green dot with a glowing trail is the ball. Image: Brookhaven National Lab

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Color photo of an oscilloscope running Higinbotham's "Tennis for Two" game. A horizontal line represents the ground, a short vertical line is the net, and a small green dot with a glowing trail is the ball. Image: Brookhaven National Lab
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 14:50:30 UTC Robert McNees

Physicist William Higinbotham was born OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he was the Electronics Group leader at Los Alamos.
In 1958, while working at Brookhaven Lab, he invented one of the first video games: “Tennis for Two.” It ran on an oscilloscope.
Image: Brookhaven

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