When and how did the intenet first start to change gambling? And i think there are two or three things that all happen at once, more or less within the space of two or three years. Tony blair's government lays down the gambling act of two thousand and five. It comes into force in two thousand and seven. Something happens in between those two dates, which is that the iphone is invented in two Thousand and six. And that's when things really start to take off. Once people had smart phones in their pockets, er, as you know, that took off fairly quickly. That means that suddenly gambling moves very much into the main stream in a way that i