Early Commercial Development (jan 1, 1972 – jan 1, 1997)

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The longest time period in online gaming history, it started as the emergence of computing technology was being taken in interest by companies to by the end of it having massively developed new games and the arrival of the Internet was a revolutionary leap for everyone. This was also largely played in by the Proprietary Service Era where these kinds of services was the norm and was the only way you could play games on.

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