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==Brief History for the Noobs==
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Before DOTA, before Blizzard.net, and before Lol there was Command and Conquer. Back in the day -- circa 1995 onward -- we had to either set up a LAN or direct dial another user's address over a phone line. Westwood always had this functionality in mind, as they spent most of their time fragging one another in their office in the name of "playtesting". From 1995 to the mid 2000s, there was a wonderful time period where volumes of users wanted to play these games and it was never hard to find a pickup match via a forum, a client like GameSpy, Hamachi, or any number of cracked 3rd party software hosts designed to enhance gameplay. In 1998 Westwood was acquired by EA Games, the destroyer of all that is holy and precious in PC gaming. Several meh/10 sequels later and interest in these games declined and everyone collectively decided to move on to other games.