Nintendo was founded in Kyoto on September 23, 1889, by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Back then, the small business made hanafuda by hand: Japanese playing cards decorated with flowers. A few months earlier, on March 31, 1889, Gustave Eiffel had inaugurated his tower for the Paris World's Fair. Nintendo wouldn't move into video games until the 1970s.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.