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8:17am on Tuesday, 31st March, 2026:
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In the modern art museum at the Laboral complex in Gijón, Spain, there's a wall showing the development of different arts, sciences and technologies (or at least there was when I visited it last year). Pleasingly, it includes a strip for computer games.
I'm not complaining that they omitted MUD, because they only have so much space. I do wonder why they chose to use Neverwinter Nights as their exemplar for MMORPGs, though.
I'd never heard of Bertie the Brain before, but it does look to have a decent claim to be the first video game (in that it was a game, Noughts and Crosses, and had a screen).
Who says modern art centres aren't educational?
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