Before the catastrophe befell Earth….
The era of electronics had already arrived…
Whenever one was bored, or whenever one felt like passing some time, the absolute first thought that would come to mind was…
The internet.
A marvelous place where one could find everything they were looking for…
However, the internet was a recent creation… many years before the internet came to be, humans had already found many ways to entertain themselves.
Starting from the Royal game of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, and shifting to more long-lived games like go or chess, humanity had always been incredibly precise and advanced when it came to these 'games'.
Some people spent their lives trying to master even a single one of these games, and some of them weren't even able to do it… but even the best of the best fell back at the thought of facing off against a modern-day computer…