Anniversaries: X years ago today

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20 years ago today, World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment, was released in AU and NA. (feddit.nl)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah, my second addiction (first was Ragnarok Online). I'm damn glad I always played on private servers, so I never got "fully" invested, being aware the server could shut down anytime

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah. The birth of a username.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

[Off topic]

Reamde by Neal Stephenson.

Techno-thriller about a billionaire's niece who gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia after her boyfriend sells the wrong people a computer file loaded with ransomware. Much of the action takes place in the virtual world the billionaire created to compete with WOW.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/reamde-neal-stephenson/6431158?ean=9780062191496

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Thus starting the transformation