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1952: EDSAC learns to play tic-tac-toe
2018: still hasn't learned futility
Can't take you ANYWHERE Chris
Chris
Chris
what are you DOING to that poor machine
do you know how much it costs
"The machine's not enjoying this... it's gone on strike a bit"
It's making BAGPIPE NOISES Chris
stop blasting these terrible sounds out of a computer Chris if computers were meant to blast sounds they'd be called, uh, sound blasters, but they're not, they're called COMPUTERS and they compute IMPORTANT NUMBERS
@natecull Gosh, the WOPR figured it out in a few minutes.
@natecull *notices ur retrocomputer* OXO what's this?
@theoutrider it's a kind of beef flavoured soup cube but that's not important right now
Honestly, leave one of your nerds in a room alone with a computer and THE FIRST THING YOU DO is start playing games