People who have been gaming for just a few years might take online functionality for granted. After all, with the latest generation of consoles you just need to pop in the game disc to start playing with someone across the globe -- provided you have an Internet connection and in the case of Xbox 360 owners, signed up for an Xbox Live subscription. But to get where we are today many years have passed since the early days of dial-up and BBS turn-based games -- or PLATO time-sharing systems if you go way back, according to Wikipedia.

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Diablo 1 Dupe FTW

EVERQUEST :)

My first was starcraft

Technically it was some version of Risk that I played on a dial up BBS.

The first game I played via modem against another player was Command and Conquer.

The first online game I played was Call of Duty 4.

Either the original C&C or Half Life. Both were awesome games at the time. Ah, I can remember the days when your health didn't come back on it's own, you had to run around the map searching for med packs.

Red Faction on PC,

Counter-Strike, of course

Runescape. I don't play much more because they modified the trade system and make it hard to make money. That, and for some reason i got bored with clicking a rock for 6 hours at a time.

YES! but the first actual game I played online and devoted time to was halo 3

Haha awesome, Counter-strike and Team Fortress Classic, timing the ping just ahead of the enemy for a headshot.

and Quake lan at my mates house on the old coaxil bus network setup.

Kel

Doom on DOS, through the dial-up Dwango service in Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWANGO

After that came Quake95 on iiNet, again on dial-up with no latency prediction. Quakeworld came soon after.

- [TRB]_ReKTeK

Starcraft maybe

Darkforces 2: Jedi Knight, the only FPS I've ever held my own in.

Warcraft 2, that game got me hooked back in the 90s, I played with my friends modem to modem. There was also some sort of network setup locally where you could dial in with your modem and 4 people could play at once (The Cage), there was no battle net back then, The Cage was just setup by some dude and his friends, you could chat on it, play war2, duke nukem 3d, there were some text based games you could play, actually only 4 people could even connect to the cage at once! It was 5$ a month for a premium account, most of it was free. This was before very many people had the internet and my parents would have thought it absurd to pay for the net back then :).

Operation Flashpoint

hmm.... has to be counter-strike.

Falcon on the Amiga via a 300 baud modem

Age of Empires!!!