Lewis, a longtime player of videogames and Dungeons and Dragons, the forerunner paper-and-pen role-playing game, graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993.

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She and her son, who was busy playing computer games in his seat, were with a tourist group that had toured eight U.S. cities in twelve days.

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Then, as now, there was talk of a new era, with electricity and the motor car playing the role of the Internet and the computer.

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