The first 2k players!!! (i had 2 of them!!!)

[Master_Smither 6]

Wow nice list how'd u get it?

 

 

 

But gratz on being the first 2k players!

[Dead_Dude4 0]

Account name: Nickrandshzn

 

Year made: 1999

 

 

 

i only got this picture of when i quited for long time till rs2 came out

 

 

 

 

 

 

gimme cookie :(?

 

Good attempt, but Runescape was released in january 2001.

 

Yes, Jagex has been around for longer than that, but the game runescape hasn't.

 

 

 

I've been playing since october 2001, wish I were on that list :(

[Platinum_Myr 349]

I've been playing since *same char* sometime in 2001. I don't know what month, just that I am sort of old school. xD :( Not on this list though.

[silver24-7 0]

2 things

 

Where did you get that list?

 

And how did the first players find out about the game? Were they friends of the Gowers or was it advertised somewhere? Or did word of mouth really go that fast?

[Richy2k0 0]

2 things

 

Where did you get that list?

 

And how did the first players find out about the game? Were they friends of the Gowers or was it advertised somewhere? Or did word of mouth really go that fast?

 

 

 

Wow, my old topic lol. I was 10 years old at the time and my dad told me about the game (It was beta testing at the time). I've met Andrew and Paul ingame during that time and I met the character "Moderator" when there was just 1 world and the mod "Moderator" walked around enforcing the rules lol.

 

 

 

Yes it was word of mouth that spread the game so quickly. Not many advertisements back than.

[QueenValerie 25]

Wow I know many on that list geesh never realized they were so old. :lol:

 

Nice list was interesting to read.

[Sy_Accursed 1554]

I recognise so many on that lists as people who were on my friends list once upon a time.

 

 

 

I THINK my very first account is one there somewhere, but that is the one account I can't remember the name of

 

 

 

cause my others were/are:

 

2nd) Slug_2001

 

3rd) Slug_original

 

4th) Valgia OR Gan something

 

5th) same as above

 

6th) Paw Claw

[primadog 126]

i saw that list somewhere, I think it's in the internet archive either under runescape or tip.it. I'll edit when I dig it up

[bigtoy 0]

wow whoever said runescape came out in 2001 is an idiot lol i have a message in my inbox from 2001 and im not that list so thus it mustve came out before 2001... idiot-.- and if it indeed did come out in 2001... ive been playing too long :\ lolol

[Itsjustagame 0]

im on there...on my first account.

 

cant be bothered looking through the list.

 

 

 

but alot of the people in the first 100 were on my friends list....so maybe Im in the 1st 100...

 

 

 

(I dont remember my username, just that I was friends with those people)

[j00b 0]

suprised iam not on that list...

 

i played runescape when it was just a BETA testing too

 

account name " shorty "

 

 

 

i still have the account to this day , lucky for me

 

i have always used that password for everything :D

 

 

 

i never play it... it was just the 1st account i ever made..

 

good ole days

[Wachtwoord 0]

Number 1999 Aoe2, isn't he member of these forums?

[wortelhaar 0]

wow, thats really interesting, a lot of familiar names in there

 

 

 

i'm gonna read through the whole list tomorrow. and btw, i would give A LOT for the username "God"

[tankot 0]

Player #384 for life. Woo.

[Zibl 0]

Wow. It has been literally FOREVER since I've played Runescape, or even signed in to the forums here. I randomly decided to come on the forums just to see how much things have changed and I happened to see this very old topic get bumped. Nobody has set the record straight (from what I can tell) so allow me to clarify this entire situation:

 

First: this list is not 100% accurate. To be on the list, you had to have SIGNED IN at some point when the list was still relevant for your name to be up there. So in all honesty, there could be hundreds of accounts that were technically within "the first 2,000 accounts ever made" that don't appear on the list because they never signed back in to those account(s). Make sense?

 

Second: the list comes from Runescape itself. Way back in the day, sometime in 2001, the High Scores on the Runescape website included the 'Herblaw' skill. However, the skill had not yet been added to the game. So on the 'Herblaw High Scores' section it automatically ranked players NOT based on their level/experience (as all of the other High Scores tables were listed) but rather by an account's creation date. So from #1 to #2000 it listed the accounts in order from their creation date (earliest to latest). But as I mentioned above, you had to have signed on to said account for it to be counted in the High Scores list... which is why the list is not 100% accurate.

 

And there you have it. I used to have an actual picture of the Herblaw High Scores table that showed everyone on this list but that was 2 or 3 computers ago and they're sadly long gone, along with a mountain of other pictures from back in the day. Anyway... hope this helped clear any questions up for anyone!