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id Software's first person shooter Doom helped to get the online multiplayer gaming boom started in the 1990s. Technically the game could only be played on a LAN set-up but using dial-up modems players were able to trick the game into thinking it was on a LAN.
The Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation (DWANGO) was perhaps the well known way for Doom gamers to get together to play Internet multiplayer deathmatches. The service started in Texas and then spread to many other cities in the US as gamers used their modem connections to find and play against Doom players all over the country.
With Quake's launch in 1996 and its built in Internet support for multiplayer gaming, services like DWANGO lost favor and in 1998 the service was shut down. Yet it still remains an an example of one of the earliest attempts to launch such a service. 04/05/09
