Ascent of the gaming industry:
           
            In the very beginning stages, the only form of gaming was through simple video games, like the building blocks and various board games, etc. Even after the rise of the internet era, the gaming concept was quite simple. Simple free games like chess, scrabble and the likes were the only ones that were played online. The expensive accessibility to the internet did not make things easier for the free games either. Then arrived those free games that were the play online or play by e mail lot. This was to make up for the poor and discontinuous access to the internet.

            As time advanced, free games began to be downloaded more often, to be played on LAN protocols, again, to compensate for the disadvantages of the internet connections. This was when free games of arcade style grew to be popular. While playing free games on the LAN protocols, multiplayer games gained popularity. Here, for the very first time, people could compete in playing those free games against other people, instead of competing with the computer.

A step further:

            Development of multiplayer games led into building of strategy based free games. This was when multiple players could play online simultaneously through LAN protocols. Further advancement in the free games sector was when people from one part of the globe could compete against people from practically the other end of the globe. The facilities were later developed such that players were automatically matched with opponents, upon consent from all the sides.

Further progress: