Before we get into our specific examples, let's point out that major pieces of technical history, including on "social media", have a connection to games.
Slack, Discord, Flickr: all meant to be part of, or broke off from, or meant to enable a video game project in some way.
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In response to this postThe connections to games go back even further! It's well known that "Spacewar!" was one of the first video games.
Porting "Spacewar!" and also authoring Space Travel was an important part of the history of Unix as well.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/spacetravel.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
Much of Spritely's tech is extrapolated from the designs pioneered in the E Programming Language http://erights.org/
But E comes from Electric Communities Habitat... a p2p distributed virtual world system which could run untrusted code and had user-run economies... in 1997! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE
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