The origins of online gaming date back to games produced in the 1970s such as Oubliette, which were played on university networks and bulletin board systems (BBSs). In time, these developed into the hugely popular online games that we can see today, including the massively multiplayer online role-playing games World of Warcraft (WoW) and City of Heroes, along with first-person shooter games such as Doom.
In this section, you can find out more about early online gaming and how it developed through the 90s and into the new millennium by choosing an item from the menu below.