SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

This is an interesting early account of the creation of Spacewar!, one of the earliest digital games:

Brand, Stewart (1972) ‘SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death among the Computer Bums’. Rolling Stone, 7 December 1972. Online: http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

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