Online Gambling Beginning
Let us take a quick look at online gambling history. All basically started in 1994 as a special act was passed by the Antigua Barbuda governing body. This act authorized the possibility of offering gaming licenses to companies or persons that wanted to invest in an Internet casino.
The law did pass but the software that was needed to achieve this was not possible at the time. The good news was that not a long time passed for this to appear. In exactly the same year we saw Microgaming appearing on the market. After that CryptoLogic also joined. Both of them appeared as a possibility and were not the Internet gaming giants they are today. As time passed the companies continued to work on their security and software. We thus saw the first ever online casino appear in 1996, being available for everyone around the world.
Between 1996 and 1998 we saw a real expansion appearing in online gaming industry. This happened due to many factors. For starters, technology was advanced enough to speed up everything linked with the Internet together with access offered. Also, software development speed was constantly on an increased path. We also saw a lot of good online casinos that put in the much needed added player requirements. Microgaming ended up showcasing Cash Splash, the first ever progressive jackpot.
We were faced with a constant increase of the online gaming environment, all in a really short time frame. The problem is that opponents also quickly appeared. John Kyl, a Republican senator from Arizona eventually presented an act in 1998 against internet gambling. We were faced with an online industry for gaming that appeared in 2 years and was worth around 1 billion dollars. Senator John Kyl continued his work and kept re-packaging the bill in order to make sure that online gambling would eventually die.
Reading about how things started is always interesting, therefore we suggest you read the page dedicated to the roulette history, you will surely enjoy it.
