Online Gaming
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So why pick such a vast topic like online gaming? The reason I chose the topic is because it has affected many years of my life, and I have slacked in many things I have done because online gaming is very, very addicting. I can't stress that enough, it's like you get lost in your own little world, playing with millions of other people like yourself. The reason why online gaming is so popular, is you are playing against real live people, as opposed to AI (Artificial Intelligence). Online gaming can be extremely fun, as well as very competitive, some games have "ladders" which people compete on to become number one in the ranking systems for that game, some games have tournaments where people win trips, prizes, money, etc. I personally have won prizes and a trip, which I later found out I was too young to go on.
As far as I can remember the first online games were MUD's (Multi-User Dungeons). The history of MUDs all starts in the UK, about 1979. Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University, started writing MUD, a game written in BCPL on a DEC-10. Along with Richard Bartle, who tidied up the system and added a very crude database compiler for it, they produced a very good combat game for it...