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funny how no one even mentioned World of Warcraft for MMOs because it's too obvious.
because it's flat out wrong. WoW aped most of its systems from Everquest, which most of WoW's development team was actively playing. They made some improvements on the genre, but the bones existed as early as 1997 with Ultima Online.
the question was "popularized" not "invented".
I promise you, Everquest was plenty popular at the time, and it didn't invent those things either.
sure, we can quibble on the threshold of "popular" here. but you can't question that WOW caused an absolute explosion in MMOs after it. not like anything before.