Xbox Live Turns 9 Years Old

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on August 14, 2011 AT 06:56am

As of today, August 14th, Xbox Live is now 9 years old.

The service has helped shape the way that console gamers socialize in this online age and will probably continue to do so for many more years.

The oldest Gamertag on the service is “e” and it belongs to Microsoft’s Operation Manager for Xbox Live, Eric Neustradter who posted a picture of his profile on twitter.

The Xbox Live service wasn’t available to the general public on August 14th 2002 however, this didn’t happen until November 15th.

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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