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Online Gaming Addiction History

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First Video Game Console "The Brown Box"

1967

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

First message was sent between two computers (Internet Birth)

10/29/1969

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm

Ray Tomlinson introduces network e-mail

1972

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm

Empire (First ever networked multiplayer game)

1973

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390917,00.asp

Maze War (First Multiplayer 3D Shooter)

1974

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390917,00.asp

The word Internet is first used

1982

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html

Multi-Access dungeon (MAD) (First ever global MMORPG)

1984

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390917,00.asp

First Console from Nintendo (NES)

1985

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Nintendo Introduces Game Boy (Portable Gaming Starts)

1989

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML Code

1990

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm

"www" was introduced to the public

06/06/1991

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm

The Shadow of Vserbius (first online game to run on a monthly subscription)

1992

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390917,00.asp

Doom (Popularized the First Person Shooter Genre)

1993

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390917,00.asp

Microsoft founded

1995

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx

Sony introduces PlayStation

1995

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Microsoft launches Windows 95

08/24/1996

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx

Sony introduces Playstation2 (First console to use DVD's)

2000

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Korean e-Sports Players Association (KeSPA) comes into operation

May, 2000

http://www.e-sports.or.kr/

Microsoft develops XBOX and enters the market

2001

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Nintendo develops Game Boy Advance (Enhanced color display on a portable system)

2002

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Nintendo introduces Nintendo DS (first touch screen gaming console)

2004

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Word of Warcraft Release

11/23/2004

Korean Man Dies from Gaming for over 50 Hours

08/10/2005

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102159/Video-game-addicts-South-Korea-limited-playing-online-just-hours-day.html

Chinese Man Drops Dead After 3-Day Gaming Binge

09/18/2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297059,00.html

Kids Help Phone gaming Addiction Online Survey Study

09/01/2009

http://org.kidshelpphone.ca/media/53784/online gaming report - english.pdf

Time Magazine Article about reSTART Program

09/28/2009

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1925468,00.html

Panorama TV Special on Video Game Addiction

12/12/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R83287N6kFg

CBS News: Onlgoing Debate to Classify Video Game Addiction as a Medical Disorder

01/18/2011

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-2965003.html

South Korea Boot Camps to help Video Game Addicted Youth

01/18/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R83287N6kFg

Futoko Shien Centre 327 Requests of Gaming Addiction Cases

01/01/2012 - 07/01/2012

http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=37753

Gamer Dies in Internet Cafe (Taiwan)

02/03/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/taiwan-internet-cafe-corpse-gamer-died-dead_n_1252766.html

Consumer Affairs Agency Regulate Online Social Gaming (Japan)

May 2012

http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=37753