History
PbP has its origins on the large computer networks and bulletin board systems of major universities in the United States in the 1980s, and drew heavily upon the traditions of fanzines and off-line role-playing games. The introduction of IRC enabled users to engage in real-time chat-based role-playing and resulted in the establishment of open communities.
Development of forum hosting software and browser-based chat services such as AOL and Yahoo Chat increased the availability of these mediums to the public and improved accessibility to the general public. The popularity of PbP games peaked in the early 2000s with online chat services and free remotely hosted message boards such as invisionFree and ProBoards, and has seen a decline in favor of graphical MMORPGs in recent years.
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