In 1974 Rawitsch took a job at Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, or MECC, a state-funded organization that developed educational software for the classroom. When the next semester ended, however, Rawitsch deleted the program, although he printed out a copy of the source code. Despite bugs, the game was immediately popular, and he made it available to others on Minneapolis Public Schools' time-sharing service. The Oregon Trail debuted to Rawitsch's class on 3 December 1971. One of these students, senior Don Rawitsch, had the idea to create a computer program for a history class he was teaching, and recruited two of his friends, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, both of whom were students teaching math, to help. ![]() ![]() The Oregon Trail was created in 1971 by three student teachers at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in the HP Time-Shared BASIC environment running on an HP-2100 minicomputer.
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