New To Gambling?

Never played at online casinos, but often dreamt about how you could spend the jackpot? If so, you are on the right page!

The wisest way to start doing any new things is to go into their history first. That is why we want to offer you to learn a few facts about online casinos.

There are three main reasons why online casinos began developing and became so popular. The first refers to the gaming software. From the middle 1970s land-based casinos started to use more gaming software. For example, computer-based slots replaced electromechanical slots. New machines had more options and better computer graphics. Around that time software for blackjack was also developed.

But there was a big problem: no mechanism to connect the main server and make it possible to use the gambling application programs from that server. You can guess, that the problem was overcome when the world knew such a phenomenon as Internet. In the 1990s Internet got quite a good accessibility and new possibilities, besides as great means of communication, became clear to millions of people.

Online casinos were not just a myth anymore and the only missing thing was a regulatory mechanism. This problem was solved in about 1994. The first who issued gambling licenses was the state of Antigua. Now we can consider that date as the birthday of online gambling jurisdiction. They settled the Directorate of Offshore Gaming that shall receive all the applications from licensees. That was the first step and the main stimulus for the creation of online casinos.

Now a few words about the developers of the gambling software. The pioneer was Microgaming. It is a company based on the Isle of Man. They were the first who developed online casino gambling software. But you know that you always must spoil before you spin, and the first software was not perfect. It did not provide security of the financial transactions. Here the next company comes, it’s Cryptologic. This Irish online security software company developed the first eCash applications for online casinos and established the first online casino, Intercasino, like we have today, in 1996.

Today, there are more than 2,5 thousand online casino sites with the combined income of more than $20 billion.