AOL

Look at RuneScape circa 2001 and 11 years (and 200M players) later

What do you do when you have one of the longest-running free-to-play MMOs in history? You make an infographic and before-and-after images, of course! It's kind of amazing to think that RuneScape has ...
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MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!"

I'm sure many of you, like myself, who are pushing (or just past the line) 30 have fond memories of coming home after school, fighting with your sibling to get on that big chunky PC in the front room ...
IGN

RuneScape Classic Shutting Down After 17 Years

RuneScape Classic, the legacy servers for the original version of RuneScape released in 2001, is shutting down. According to a blog post from the development team, the Classic servers were becoming ...
Ars Technica

From MUD to MMOG: The making of RuneScape

When he was a boy, growing up in Nottingham, England, Andrew Gower couldn’t afford to buy all of the video games he wanted to play. Rather than mope, he rallied. A wunderkind programmer, Gower created ...