I believe it was before that time
the history of gambling goes back to the creation of the world
nothing changes people started playing on the computer the trick remain the same
I like to read from people who reason like me. No one could know the actual starting date of gambling, it must have started even when the first gamblers did not know what they were doing or what it was being called then. There is a lot that is being assumed in this modern day but the true history has been lost. While some popular established facts are being refuted by researchers/scientists after many decades and centuries of misconceptions. This means that much of the historical documentation, in which gambling is among might not be the actual truth.
Theory is the only basis we know when, where is gambling start. But most of us did not know what is the exact date when the gambling starts, where is the place surround the globe starts gambling. Because for sure before researchers determine that specific year is the start of gambling there's are many country who actually do such thing but they didn't know that is actually gambling. Maybe from the first family here in the world doing gambling .