I started in 2002. The first days of Runescape involved me walking around Lumbridge, going to the general store and training in Al Kharid on the men in the building. I remember I stopped at level 8. At level 10 I discovered the walk outside of the map glitch, but luckily did it on another account. (This glitch involved going to the second story, going 5 steps before the ladder, clicking on it twice. Then you will appear in the wall. Then you click on the black and you could go anywhere in the game. But you couldn't get out unless you had a teleport.) Other than that, it involved training some skills and learning the ropes, even getting some free stuff from kind adventurers.