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by _wzsf 2356 days ago
Replaced? Don't make me laugh. Gaming has always been bigger.
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Gaming on the web was tiny til broadband became mainstream. There were lots of dial-up services (DJANGO, MSN gaming, etc) but latencies over the web were not so great. I remember getting pings of 700+ trying to play Jedi Knight deathmatch on AOL