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Xbox Live 1.0 Continues To Live On, Despite Being Officially Shut Down 16 Years Ago

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Xbox Live 1.0 Continues To Live On, Despite Being Officially Shut Down 16 Years Ago
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Exactly 16 years to the day, in fact.Today marks an important anniversary in the history of Xbox — it was exactly 16 years ago (on April 15th, 2010) that Microsoft turned off the original Xbox Live 1.0 servers, making original Xbox games impossible to play online.The original announcement for this no longer exists on the Xbox website, but thanks to its archived version, we can see exactly what was said by former Xbox employee Major Nelson at the time:Read the full article on purexbox.com

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