- Hamurabi (video game) (Wikipedia)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill’s newly invented FOCAL programming language.
- How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery (fermatslibrary.com)
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the Unix operating system, completed his Harvard PhD thesis on recursive function theory in early 1968. But for unknown reasons, he never officially received his degree, and the thesis itself disappeared for nearly 50 years. This strange set of circumstances raises at least three broad questions…