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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, July 08, 2024

What is the history of dice games and how old are they as a form of entertainment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice An extremely old form of human activity, dating to before the dawn of human history. All concepts of how the practice originated are, therefore, purely speculative. They may have been used for divination, entertainment or perhaps some other form of activity, originally, and probably the first dice were bones of some type — thus “casting the bones”. They were used in games by the ancient Egyptians and many other early cultures from the dawn of human history. The ancient Romans were great gamblers with dice. Playing cards and dominoes developed from dice and games played with dice, first, in China. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-dice-games-and-how-old-are-they-as-a-form-of-entertainment?show_editor=True

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