Programmeerimiskeel
students at UC Berkeley
Nolan created his own company: Atari in 1972.
Atari ships Pong, one of the first really successful commercial video games .
In 1977 Atari enters the home computer market among others
1972: Colossal Cave: a text-based adventure game. Written by Will Crowther: Will worked on
developing the assembly language program for the original routers used in creating the ARPAnet.
In their spare time the Crowthers, both avid cavers, explored and mapped portions of the
Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems in Kentucky for the Cave Research Foundation.
Crowther wrote a computer simulation based on the maps, for a Digital Equipment Corporation
PDP-10 computer, in FORTRAN. His first version included caver jargon, and many of the names
of rooms in this version came from actual features in the caves Will had been exploring.
Unfortunately, it was during this period that Crowther's marriage ended