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Timeline of Online Gaming

Posted by michael on from the tradewars-will-never-die dept.

Jippy_ writes "While reminiscing about an old online game I used to play called "Shadows of Yserbius", I found a very neat timeline of online gaming. It goes back as far as PLATO and is current up to this year. It's not news, but it's good to read and remember the days of pre-EverCrack online games." GEnie, wow.

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  1. annoyingly fantasy and PC-centric as usual by Gizzmonic · · Score: 3, Insightful
    A pity they mention J.R.R. Tolkien (peripherally important at best)and stuff like "Hacking into Computer systems," but there's no mention of the first cable modem game of all, the SEGA channel!

    It's funny how someone can slap together a timeline of their own personal preferences, (obviously without doing any research) and call it the History of Online Gaming. This is almost as bad as that Tom's Hardware Article that said "DOOM is a watershed in console gaming," along with a milquetoast collection of benchmarks that had nothing to do with gameplay or innovation. Someone should double-check this stuff before they post it.

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  2. Re:important relevant gaming article by Salis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure Direct3D is a product of Microsoft and not OpenGL. That's why you have DirectX, Direct3D, and DirectSound...all on the MS home site. Carmack just uses whatever is best..and he's looking particularly at OpenGL 2.0 for its good performance in many aspects.

    I wouldn't blame the world's destruction on a middle-aged computer graphics programmer.

    I think people who do research on increasing maximum nuclear weapons yields deserve much more credit. Then again, there are also people who purposely buy up patents for clean technologies in order that they not be further researched and made into applications. Then again, there's tyrants and dictators who purposely starve their people in order to buy old russian tanks and rifles. There's also arms dealers, drug smugglers, coca farmers, poppy harvesters, and a million other TYPES of people who do more harm than middle-aged computer graphics programmers.

    Or maybe you're one of the dozen teenagers who can't separate reality from fantasy and think playing violent video games _actually_ makes you violent in reality. If that's the case, then I just pity you.

    Sorry, John, you're not responsible for the world's end. Though it would make a great resume builder.

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