I picked the game up in december, and it was pre wilderness mate. That's a copyright on the Java game, if you noticed the entire site is copyright 1999. The game wasn't released that far back, but.. Copyrights don't mean [cabbage]. As far as the first pure? It's a little hard to assess, there were PLENTY of pures around, just none were that hard hitting, and most of their stats were even. It wasn't until after the wilderness came out where high strengthers became popular, and the X,1,X characters rolled out. A lot of people trained to 40,40, X after that due to the stat requirements. The 25 prayer thing was pretty much a joke for a while, (I'm pretty sure it's pre wildy, I have memories for a few [wagon] running out 1 iteming in lumbridge), and didn't really become popular until rune, mostly the non-skulling 60s. Once bluerose started pumping rune baxes into the economy then PBs became popular. As far as the first "Pure pker"? Was probably someone who preferred low level pking, like I used to. I know Diarkon Jr was my first one defenser pure.