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History of Slots

If you are ever out in Nevada Las Vegas and have a chance to visit the Liberty Bell Saloon, (where you probably can get a fine meal I might add) you will surely see the first slot machine ever made. Called the Liberty Bell, fittingly enough, this machine is an archaic ancestor compared to the slot machines of today. Made of only three reels and a total of twenty symbols of various playing card suits, the Liberty Bell is a fine specimen, and was surely a spectacular invention during its time. The slot machine was created by the inventive mechanic, Charles Fey, near the end of the 19th Century. It became very popular almost instantaneously, and was wearily introduced by its owner into the gambling parlors of Nevada. As was to be expected, the hand-made machines started to be confiscated as more and more gambling parlors were being raided by local police. However, when gambling was made legal in the years following, it once again became an instant hit and started sweeping the gambling world off of its feet - as we see it today.

Yet, today's slot machine is far different than the lovely lady, Liberty Bell. These days, slot machines have ten times as much paylines, symbols and reels, often rousing jackpots in the hundreds of thousands of dollars - even millions. The games come in different themes while the machines themselves are technical innovations in their own right, with sophisticated sound effects, lights, and an ingenious spinning mechanism. And whereas the fist slots were not monitored for gaming fairness, the slots of today are embedded with a computer chip, often called a Random Number Generator. This device insures that slot machines produce winners according to a payout quota, but only on a completely random and unpredictable basis.

Even the advent of online slots in the 1990's was a huge jump for the evolution of the slot machine. Like the computer chips in land-based slot machines, online slots are imbedded with a Random Number Generator programmed into the online casino software running the slots themselves. The programming and security protocols used in these applications are indeed some of the most advanced applications of this new technology. It is no longer a question whether one's financial transactions are safe and protected in an approved online casino. Safety and security is of the highest standard, as it is in the land-based casino.

The winnings at online slots are to par with the enormous jackpots found in the best casinos of Las Vegas. It really is no exaggeration to say that you can have the experience of playing a seemingly real slot machine while sitting at your computer. Like the sights and sounds of land-based slot machines, online slots also implement sophisticated graphics in recreating the flashing lights, machine sounds and other special effects casino gamblers are used to. The graphics that some of these software manufactures use is nearing the ability to create a true virtual reality inside an online casino. And to think the first slot machine was only available to a few people within a few square miles.