The very first video game turned 50 this week.  To celebrate, some physics professors rebuilt the original game as closely as they could and opened their doors today for the adoring public to play.

So what does this mean?  Well, nothing really but where would you be in life today if not for useless tidbits of knowledge.  Oh yeah, and this leads to YouTube videos of scantily clad women playing hula-hoop on the Wii.

MSNBC article here.

Link to the Brookhaven National Library page on the game here.