Over-Extended Metaphor for the day

Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by Theodores on Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:45AM (#6966376)

"...on explaining Religion to Techies" deserves a creation myth. Please help me to get this correct:

Day 1: Edison invents electricity

Day 2: Atari invented Pong

Day 3: Intel invented the CPU

Day 4: IBM invented the PC

Day 5: Bill Gates gave birth to Windows

Day 6: Al Gore invented the internet

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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by jentulman on Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:53AM (#6966401)

And on the seventh day, REST

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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by Aqueous on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:22PM (#6966935)

Can someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU?

I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in the original 7 day creation story.

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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by gaius on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:35PM (#6966997)

The did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.

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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by Aqueous on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:52PM (#6967088)

I see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware.

Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.

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