Internet History Exhibit

Looking at the 1982 section of the exhibit it has a picture of a computer game named Snipes. Snipes was this action game that people could play together over a network. I found it pretty interesting that there was actually a playable network game that far back. Not sure if it was the first game to be played over a network though. Not only did this game get released but I guess this when TCP/IP became the standard. Since IBM came out with the PC in 1981, other versions of the PC were popping up in 1982. This surge from everything leading up to this year resulted in the computer being Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.”