COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Who created the game of Pong?
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Allan Alcorn
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The Chinese Emperor, Ping Pong
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Ellen Pong
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Allan Ping
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1974 Alcorn created the first video game on a custom chip (home�PONG) followed by the Atari VCS home video game platform that launched the cartridge video game industry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alcorn joined Atari in 1972 and designed its first commercially successful video game, Pong. In 1974, he hired a teenaged Steve Jobs into his first formal job. Later, Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak came to Alcorn’s home to demo what would become the Apple I computer for Alcorn and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.
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