Tennis For Two - The second ever computer game @dancraggs

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Way back in 1958, William Higinbotham invented Tennis For Two to liven up visitor day at Brookhaven National Laboratory, his workplace. The game uses an oscilloscope with two control pads. It remained largely unknown until 1981 when a lawyer trying to break Magnavox's patent for video games came across writings talking about the game.

Blueprints of it were found to predate Magnavox's game, the case was settled out of court, and the game found fame as the second ever invented, since it was later predated by A.S. Douglas' 'OXO' game from 1952.

The video is sourced from Brookhaven National Laboratory, a governmental institution, and as such, the video is in public domain. Peacespeakers' music is released under a Creative Commons license. You can see a video of theirs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YaBkugRBmQ

*** Whilst the components of this video are free, this video itself is not. You should not re-upload this video verbatim anywhere, especially with no attribution. Whilst I've had many people do this, a few have been kind enough to message and ask to display the video somewhere off YouTube, which in most cases is fine. All I ask is that you ask ***

Edit: I've been asked quite a few times what music this is. It's 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacespeakers, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'. Their web page can also be found here:

http://www.sojusrecords.com/artists/peacespeakers.html

updated 17 years ago

Tennis For Two - The second ever computer game

Dan C 2007-05-18 | *** BACKGROUND MUSIC INFO IS BELOW! *** PLEASE READ THE COPYRIGHT INFORMATION BELOW ***

Way back in 1958, William Higinbotham invented Tennis For Two to liven up visitor day at Brookhaven National Laboratory, his workplace. The game uses an oscilloscope with two control pads. It remained largely unknown until 1981 when a lawyer trying to break Magnavox's patent for video games came across writings talking about the game.

Blueprints of it were found to predate Magnavox's game, the case was settled out of court, and the game found fame as the second ever invented, since it was later predated by A.S. Douglas' 'OXO' game from 1952.

The video is sourced from Brookhaven National Laboratory, a governmental institution, and as such, the video is in public domain. Peacespeakers' music is released under a Creative Commons license. You can see a video of theirs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YaBkugRBmQ

*** Whilst the components of this video are free, this video itself is not. You should not re-upload this video verbatim anywhere, especially with no attribution. Whilst I've had many people do this, a few have been kind enough to message and ask to display the video somewhere off YouTube, which in most cases is fine. All I ask is that you ask ***

Edit: I've been asked quite a few times what music this is. It's 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacespeakers, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'. Their web page can also be found here:

http://www.sojusrecords.com/artists/peacespeakers.html

Jason Manford, Cardiff Motorpoint Arena. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town...

Dan C 2011-11-12 | "Get out your phones, I know that's the opposite of what they told you."

Shiko African Drummers at Drum Camp Wales 2011

Dan C 2011-09-01 | Djelifoli, Garankedon, Lekoule and Fankani, and an open jam session. 26th August, 2011. Drum Camp Wales, Woodhouse Wood.

Shiko is a community African drumming group based in Mumbles, Swansea, South Wales UK. For more info or to join in, visit http://www.shiko.org

Thanks to the two people who gave some of their time to film this for us.

0:00 Djelifoli and Garankedon
8:58 Lekoule and Fankani
14:34 Open jam

Radio Playhouse - Voice Scrambler

Dan C 2011-01-11 | PK doesn't want to spend a load of money on a cubicle voice scrambler, so DuRyan is the unlucky guinea pig drafted in for a trial of the po' man's substitute.

License: cc-by

Radio Playhouse - Spoonful Of Cinnamon

Dan C 2011-01-08 | Just swallow a spoonful of cinnamon for Everybody Wins, Everybody Loses. How hard can it be?

Radio Playhouse - Colossal Burger!

Dan C 2011-01-08 | The Playhouse intern brings the crew enormous burgers from a local strip club. Cue a very excited PK...

License: cc-by

Radio Playhouse - Bee Hive

Dan C 2011-01-08 | DuRyan freaks out with a bee hive in his hands during Everybody Wins, Everybody Loses.

License: cc-by

Kodo - Jang Gwara

Dan C 2010-02-24 | An excerpt from the 'Live at the Acropolis' DVD - a very rare one, but definitely worth getting your hands on. This is the funny sketch.

Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss: Random - Butts and Bugs in China

Dan C 2010-01-08 | Kevin, Tim and Glenn discuss the toilet situation in China, and kevin's fear of mosquitoes. From Episode 5.

Radio Playhouse - Prize Kitty

Dan C 2009-12-10 | PK and the crew phone up a lucky listener to tell her she's won an Xbox 360, but she doesn't answer. So the Prize Kitty leaves a message. Released under cc-by-nc-sa license.

Radio Playhouse - Duryan Sells Out PK

Dan C 2009-12-09 | It's Fat Man Friday and PK sends Duryan with some cake to apologise for making his boss look dumb in front of his girl the day before.

Released under a cc-by license.

Sidaction - Ensemble Contre Le Sida - Sa Raison dEtre (HQ)

Dan C 2009-11-30 | See below for donation links/Voir les liens pour donner ci-dessous.

PLEASE - Buy one of the Sidaction-supporting albums (like Ensemble Contre le Sida) from any place you can. Your purchase helps fund the fight against the HIV virus. Plus, you get good music like this.

Note: I re-encoded this from a CD-Plus CD I bought into a YouTube-friendly form, so it should be good quality.

S'IL VOUS PLAIT - Achetez un des albums Sidaction-supportants (comme Ensemble Contre le Sida) n'importe où possible. Votre achat aidera le lutte contre le virus Sida. De plus, on reçoit de la bonne musique comme celle-ci.

To donate/pour donner:
Sidaction: http://www.sidaction.org
THT UK: http://www.tht.org.uk
EFAF: http://www.ejaf.com/Home
CWAC: http://www.cwac.org

Diggnation #62 - Kevin Pukes on Alexs Couch

Dan C 2009-11-10 | I know this is on YT already, but hopefully the new site will keep this in better quality. The resolution was poor anyway, as the original was a ~300x200px clip at the end of the episode.

Diggnation #216 - Hippie Glenns Slurs

Dan C 2009-09-09 | "What is he talking about?"

Céline Dion - Sil Suffisait Daimer (live au Stade de France 1999)

Dan C 2009-07-25 | Un note à tous qui meurtrissent d'amour ou du monde: Ne renoncez jamais à tes rêves et vœux, et peut-être, un jour, ils deveniront un réalité.

Enregistré live au Stade de France, 1999 avec Jean-Jacques Goldman. S'il vous plaît, achetez le DVD 'Au Cœur du Stade' si vous aimez cette vidéo pour un grand concert de 18 chansons, du métrage dans les coulisses et un medley acoustique karaoké.

Recorded live at the Stade de France in 1999 with Jean-Jacques Goldman. Please, buy the DVD 'Au Cœur du Stade' if you like this video for a huge concert of 18 sonds, backstage footage and an acoustic karaoke compilation.

A brief remix: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Dan C 2009-06-09 | Take a good strange movie in the form of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a little boredom and... well you don't normally get this. Note to afficionados: Yes, the scenes aren't in order. Yes, I've missed out bits and applied artistic license to others. You'll live, I'm sure.

All footage is used for artistic/fair use/parody purposes. Please go and get the DVD of the full film - it's one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Music is an edit of Inteligente's Nobi, the Kashikoi Taiko to Basu Mix. Go and buy the full album by Kodo, 'Sai-So' - another masterpiece.

Diggnation #204: Kegbot, Robogames & Hippie Glenn

Dan C 2009-06-05 | Oh Hippie Glenn, all our hats are off to you.

You can see how to make Kegbot in Systm #104.

Armed robber just doesnt see it coming...

Dan C 2009-06-04 | A hooded armed robber attempts to rob a Mexican-owned store in Grand Rapids, MI. His threatening the female cashier is too much for the owner Miguel Perez, who takes matters into his own hands...

Gerry Andersons UFO (Power Themes 90 remix)

Dan C 2009-01-23 | The Power Themes remix of the UFO theme originally composed by Barry Gray. Even funkier than the original?

Swansea Flashmob - Bananaphones

Dan C 2008-06-08 | Saturday 7th June 2008, 1pm. Swansea Flashmob's second outing, Bananaphones.

Join the Facebook group: 'Swansea Flashmob'

Sideways Gravity

Dan C 2008-05-27 | "Have you been drinking?"

Alison Brown Quartet with John Doyle @ Telluride 2003

Dan C 2007-08-14 | *** Add '&fmt=18' (minus quotes) to the address for HQ ***

The Alison Brown Quartet hijack John Doyle for a session at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2003. This video is also available on the festival's 30th anniversary DVD.

Clouds Lookout Timelapse

Dan C 2007-07-03 | The back of my house slopes down, so I was able to get a look of the clouds out to the sea. This is the time lapse of that video; I was just messing around really.