Unveiling the Journey: From Land Casinos to Online Gambling

Let us start with a brief bit of history on actual Gambling itself until furthering into Online Gambling. Well when you start off any article with "The History" as an attention grabber something in your mind may try to tell you to stop reading, No! and turn back but I guarantee that in this very short article you will learn the complete history of online gaming, how it evolved and much more about today's present day online gambling life. Now before we go further into the actual concept of Online Gambling let us first define the world gamble. Gamble: To stake or risk money, or anything of value, on the outcome of something involving chance. This was the 2nd dictionary on dictionary.com and I feel it fits the world best but now second of all when we can get the word Gambler off of the root word gamble by adding at r to the end. This then makes the world into a noun or in other words a person, place or thing but in this situation a person whom is the Gambler. Gambler was created as a noun off of the route word gamble in 1747 via Online Etymology Dictionary. In the context of gambling or online casinos the term "gaming" refers to legal gambling while the word gambling refers to illegal, but that is not always the fact in the present day. Instead of going back in time to explain to you how the pilgrims got their wooden slot machines set up we will end this paragraph here with a huge statistic of global dominance which is Gambling - Land Casinos and Online Casinos - had an estimated value of $335 billion in revenues. Now this is speaking about legal gambling of course.

Let's Dig Into Some Online Gambling History

Remember back sometime in the mid 90's when you had a 15 inch CRT Monitor with dial-up connection and were just thrilled to have this great new thing called the Internet? Well that is basically when Online Casino's and or Gambling were launched. In 1994 the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda passed a free trade act which allowed organizations to be granted access to licenses for Online Casinos and have it be 100% legitimate. By the year 2001 the number of online gamblers across the world rose to a whopping 8 million people. Now online gambling is considered a norm and is quite popular throughout current society. There has been some issues throughout the United States and other countries assuming that online gambling will put people at risk of addiction and 75% of gamblers that play online are actually addicts while they other 25% that use land based casino's are just regular players. There is a variety of games to play at online casinos such as table games, card games and slots. Anywhere from blackjack to poker and even craps a Casino is truly the gamblers paradise, especially that more and more casinos are starting to implement in online betting on sporting or racing events.

Gambling Online Issues In United States

The United States government has always done its best to keep their citizens off online gambling. For one their legal age limit of gambling is higher then most every country in the world at 21 years of age which could be easily tricked by a younger student perhaps using a credit card at the age of 18.