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Read more: https://tildalife.com/how-much-money-did-the-creator-of-windows-solitaire-receive-from-microsoft/
TIL that an intern at Microsoft made the popular game solitaire back in 1988. There were few computer games available at the time. Bill Gates approved Solitary, therefore it became a part of the Windows operating system.
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I read somewhere that Solitary and Minesweeper exist to train the PC user about double clicking, click and drag and right click.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-computers-comewith-solitaire-and-minesweeper-2015-8
one time after completing the game it said i played a perfect game didn’t know that was a thing and it never has happened again
To note: Solitaire existed offline prior to this but Gates’ crew digitised it.
This has to be the most boring and pointless post I have ever read on this sub
There were few computer games available at the time??? There were literally thousands of computer games made between 1977 and 1988.
I had hundreds and hundreds of games for early 8-bit computers and for the PC in DOS before Windows came out.
The author of that article was oblivious.