History of video games - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_gamesThe history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on mainframe computers, with MIT's Spacewar! in 1962 as one of the first such games to be played with a video display. The early 1970s brought the first consumer-ready video game hardware: the first home video game console, the Magnavox …
History of online games - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_online_gamesA key goal of early network systems such as ARPANET and JANET was to allow users of "dumb" text-based terminals attached to one host computer (or, later, to terminal servers) to interactively use programs on other host computers. This meant that games on those systems were accessible to users in many different locations by the use of programs such as telnet. Most of the early host-based games were single-player, and frequently originated and were prim…