1889
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1889 saw two inventions and companies that would come to influence the computer and video game industries.
Electromechanical punched card tabulating machine
On January 8, 1889, an American inventor named Herman Hollerith received a patent for an electromechanical punched card tabulating Machine, which improved upon the early devices that read punched cards mechanically.
It recorded information through a mechanized binary code in that it sent an electromechanical pulse that incremented a counter. A specified part of a card would be punched if one set of requirements was met or not punched if they were not.
Nintendo Koppai
On September 3, 1889, a Japanese businessman named Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai (任天堂骨牌, "Nintendo Cards").
Video games set in 1889
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles by Frogwares and Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - The Mummy's Curse by ICOM Simulations were set in 1889.
