Those were awesome times. I began playing sometime in 2002. The only thing I would do was mine iron ore at the varrock mines, smelt it in Lumbridge, smith the bars in Varrock, and sell the results to the nearby sword shop. I made an astounding 12k off of that, then I learned of coal certs. I also still remember getting my first r2h and hitting my very first two digit damage on a black knight by the black knights fortress. Sometimes I wish that Jagex never came out with rs2. After rs2 was released, the community just seemed to go downhill. The norm of people going out of their way to help you was soon replaced by frequent scamming and the bad-mouthing from others if you had one skill lower than theirs. We would have no idea what we would have been missing if rs2 never had come out.