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One thing that blows my mind is how tabletop RPGs appeared roughly at the same time as computers and modern video games but it's pure coincidence
Why didn't tabletop RPGs appear sooner? All you need, in theory, is a randomizer and some paper and writing utensils.
@cwebber But RPG rulesets date back to HG Wells at the latest in English, and about a hundred years earlier in Austria (as career military training).
And the miniatures were normal in the 1910s instead of niche as in the 1970s. Collections of lead soldiers used to be a synecdoche for boyhood. Painted to match particular armies, marched and invested on dustheap and counterpane, particular miniatures represented the child or a hero.
