I was too young to get in on the early (and tbh me exciting) age of MMOs, only opting for RuneScape because it had a free tier.

I just finished Jason Schreier's book that covered 38 Studio's implosion and then his next book that covered Blizzard. It was a nice trip down memory lane where I remember crawling through the latest PC Gamer issue to read about MMO experiences or watching G4's Portal act out skits in these massive games.

While there's private servers out there, I'm not sure you could recreate the hype around that era.