Online games through the years
From longtime kingpin World of Warcraft to new-boy-wonder-on-the-block DC Universe Online, massively-multiplayer online worlds have never been more popular. But they're far from a new concept; tech-savvy escapists have been creating immersive multi-user playlands for as long as there have been computers. Not only are online games much, much older than Warcraft, they're even older than the Internet itself -- and the first one ever is quite possibly older than you.