Posts Tagged“e-gaming”

Ways to make money without getting up off the couch

What with the rise of the Internet and the widespread availability of modern PCs, it’s no longer necessary to earn your living doing a 9 to 5 job at the office each and every day. Technology has given rise to what’s called the “digital nomad”, a new breed of worker who goes wherever he or she pleases and makes their money exclusively online. Sounds good right? Imagine being able to jet off into the sunset, sip cocktails at some beautiful tropical beach while working for just a few hours a day on your laptop to finance it. Well, the good…

A brief history of the rise of e-gaming

The history of online e-gaming dates back to the 1990s and the emergence of the Internet. It was in 1994 that the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda became the first country to alter its gambling regulations to allow gambling websites to take bets from people in foreign countries. Even so, Antigua and Barbuda lacked the infrastructure to support e-gaming websites at the time. Instead, the first true e-gaming website was founded in Austria. Called Intertops.com, the site was ran by a German-based bookmaker that had previously only offered its services illegally. But despite operating outside the bounds of…