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If anyone still remembers RSC (Runescape Classic) and would like to continue playing it, this is the most popular and well-kept private server for it FYI: http://www.rscemulation.net/

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So i basically ended up as a programmer by hacking the runescape clients so i could use them in the creation of private servers. Illegal but great fun (but wasn't everything illegal but great fun as a teenager?). Contributed quite a lot to the private server community. I still tend to hang out in the programmer usergroups of those communities though I lost interest in modding runescape. But hey, I'm a programmer now, so thanks jagex

p.s. : sorry for helping so many people steal your content, it was just for the lulz. I promise!

Hey so did I!

My first programming experience was working on RS2DBase. It was pretty popular back in the day. I met loads of great people through those forums and I don't think I'd have gotten into programming without them.

Same here, Jagex's client and private servers are what I cut my teeth on when it came to programming. My entire fascination with programing evolved from runescape. Hacking, cheating, and modding it.

Cheating at runescape is how I ended up as a programmer as well, mostly writing scripts for scar back in middle school. I tried to making a client, but all I managed to do is allow you to spam trade requests and disconnect people. It ended up being popular for a couple days until everyone started blocking trade requests while in the wilderness.

Man I miss that game.

Jagex also maintains the Classic worlds for those who maintained a character presence there, private servers are actually being taken down left and right as they violate Jagex's terms and their legal team is quite efficient (there are many news articles about their legal battles as of late)

if you enjoy(ed) RSC you might also like this game: http://mo.ee/

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