Thanks to Zubaz for pointing this article out.

The Gamer Headlines has a nice article up about the history of game distribution, which of course includes Stardock which was one of the first to get started in digital distribution on the PC.

"One of the PC distribution pioneers was a company called ‘Stardock’. Stardock started back in 1991, and helped develop operating system 2 for computers. Its still active now, but isn’t as popular as it was then. We soon saw bigger and better companies come along, like Drengin.net which let people pay for a years subscription to use. Then 2004 saw the release of TotalGaming.net which either let people pay individually for games or purchase tokens to then later pay for games at a discount price."

Read the full article here.