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Digital and Interactive Media

Media forms native to networked and interactive digital delivery, grouped together because a video game is fundamentally a digital interactive medium, not a separate kind of thing from blogging, podcasting, social media and streaming video. Belongs here: blogging, podcasting, social media, streaming video and video games as media forms. Does not belong here: broadcast media that predates networked delivery, grouped under broadcast, or the technology and organizations that deliver these media forms, which belong to the technology and organization types.

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1962 1
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of video games, Early history section
Quote, Wikipedia: History of video games, Early history section
Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.
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