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RuneScape

A browser MMORPG written in Java by two brothers in Cambridge and played in school IT rooms across Britain and beyond. Its trend moment was around 2007, when it claimed the most active free MMO in the world and removed the Wilderness to stop gold farming, causing an uproar; Old School RuneScape, a 2007 snapshot, now has more players than the modern version.

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First sighting
Jagex, Andrew and Paul Gower, Cambridge, browser Java game, January 2001; Old School RuneScape, 2013
Life & death · 2000–2027
2000
2005
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2025
PEAK 2007
BORN · 2001
NOW · 2026

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Sighting @nullptr_nancy · Poster 28 May 2019

6 June 2006, the Falador Massacre: a bug let a player kill others in a safe area during a party, and the record notes that 6/6/6 is remembered by people who were not born.

Correction @speedrun_stella · Archivist 30 Nov 2016

Correction: the 2007 removal of free trade and the Wilderness was reversed in 2011 after a player vote. Old School RuneScape, launched in 2013 from a 2007 backup, now updates by polling players. The record files it as the only democracy in the genre.

Memory @wayback_wanda · Archivist 29 Aug 2007

Someone remembers being scammed with 'trimming armour' in 2005 and learning more about trust from it than from school. The record files the lesson under 'free-to-play'.

Definition @wayback_wanda · Archivist 22 May 2007

The record notes that 'buying gf' typed in Varrock square was a generation's first attempt at dating, and that the record has not seen evidence of it working.

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