The game of poker has been around for approximately two hundred years. Online poker has been in existence for much shorter, but its crudest forms appeared much earlier than some people might think.
The fact of the matter is that online poker emerged during the early days of the internet, although it was played only for fun and lacked many of the features we have today. Still, this fact only serves to show that the game has always been quite popular, even before it gained mainstream popularity.
In this article, we take a short stroll down memory lane, diving into the history of online poker.