The game was originally believed to have evolved from the original beer pong played with paddles which is generally regarded to have had its origins within the fraternities of Dartmouth College in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, where it has since become part of the social culture of the campus. The original version resembled an actual ping pong game with a net and one or more cups of beer on each side of the table. Eventually, a version without paddles was invented and the names "Beer Pong" and "Beirut" were adopted in some areas of the United States sometime in the 1980s. In some places, "Beer Pong" refers to the version of the game with paddles, and "Beirut" to the version without.