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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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