Comment on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-upparentComments−thothless11din addition to what others said...2004 runescape, now "old school runescape", which is actually successor 2001 Runescape "Classic", were both playable in a browser.and my (parent's) PC couldn't even install, let alone run WoW. despite me trying with all my might.so I'm sure I wasn't alone.it was absolutely magical to me.−terribleperson11dYep. You could play it almost anywhere. School, friends house, parents work laptop. It required little hardware and, as you said, ran in a browser.Meanwhile, WoW had to be installed, took a fairly large amount of space (I remember 14gb on my 28gb HDD), and Ironforge ran like garbage on my PC.−rcxdude11dYeah, it predated WoW by some years, and was accessible pretty much anywhere (even if school IT often tried to block it).
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2004 runescape, now "old school runescape", which is actually successor 2001 Runescape "Classic", were both playable in a browser.
and my (parent's) PC couldn't even install, let alone run WoW. despite me trying with all my might.
so I'm sure I wasn't alone.
it was absolutely magical to me.
Yep. You could play it almost anywhere. School, friends house, parents work laptop. It required little hardware and, as you said, ran in a browser.
Meanwhile, WoW had to be installed, took a fairly large amount of space (I remember 14gb on my 28gb HDD), and Ironforge ran like garbage on my PC.
Yeah, it predated WoW by some years, and was accessible pretty much anywhere (even if school IT often tried to block it).