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The Apollo 8 astronauts performed lunar orbit insertion #OTD in 1968.

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the moon, the first to see an earthrise, fifty three years ago today.

Anders spotted the Earth coming up over the Moon’s horizon:

"Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

Image: NASA

There was a world before, when a "gamified game" was word salad. Where the game existed to be there when you needed it, not engineered to require it like bag of morphine desperate to be squeezed. Simply our amateur hour of teens and adults alike wasting time away in vocal denigration, every hour.