| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | The different versions of online gambling history
- Tuesday, 12 Dec 2006
Online gambling has a history of only about a decade, a little more. But the games we find at the online gambling sites date, naturally, to far back in history. Take craps, for example. The game we find at most all online casinos and which is so popular among millions and millions of online gamblers even had a different name in the past. Craps was once called crabs. Crabs, in turn is actually a development, a simplification rather, of Hazard.
A long time before online gambling sites and games, Chaucer wrote in his Canterbury Tales about this game. But the history of craps, an example or metaphor of the history of online gambling in general, might even date to a time before the fourteenth century. Perhaps as long ago as 600 BC, two whole millennia before Chaucer's days. The place is ancient Egypt. The players, the pharaohs, Egypt's kings and rulers.
The main elements of online gambling were present throughout history, no doubt. Such was and remains the mix of numbers and luck, betting and games. Although basic rules or even more general practices could change throughout the ages that have passed, some key elements remain and make craps, in this case, well rooted in history. Online gambling is a natural extension, even if technological and man made, of old practices. | |
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