Jesus Christ this is a nostalgia trip! I remember the 05 page. I spent a ton of time just clicking around, seeing what there was to do. I actually remember most of these pages, but the 05 page really brought back some memories. Thank you for bringing this stuff up. It really does need to be preserved.
Does anyone remember the quest help on the official website where you were allowed 3 tips to help you every 24 hours? I used that to complete so many quests back in the day.
It was awesome, it used to help if you were stuck, without ruining the quest, unlike modern guides. Modern guides are useful for one thing, knowing what to bring in advance, saving you unnecessary trips without ruining the quest
Interesting, in the banks files it starts off by saying "you can only hold 30 items"..does this mean the first inventories ever had 30 slots instead of 28? and if so, could there be an account that endured the test of time with 30 slots filled with logs or something?
The community died, along with IRL communities. The fallacy of the internet (and MMO's, in conjunction) is that internet communities exist outside of IRL communities. They are predicated on IRL communities. Community has broken down IRL, and therefore community has broken down in game. Online communities aren't some seperate entity. In insufferable person IRL will, typically, be insufferable online. It really is that simple.
you legit brought tears to my eyes and i got flooded with so many good memories from this i found this game in 2003 when my parents were divorcing and runescape got me through it so thank you so much man
I started playing in November 2003 on RuneScape Classic. This brought back so many memories of the game, playing with my older brother. Thanks for this so much.
As someone who's been playing rs since midway through classic, this is quite a trip you were right. I believe the reason they throw players in random gear in their screenshots is to preserve the fun. Before everyone got hyper efficient, it wasn't common knowledge what the hell you should take to bandos. Should've seen the shitshow of kbd in his early days. So many didn't have protection at all.
The crazy feeling for me watching is is I was an 04/05 player who left to play other MMOs but returned in 08/09 for awhile and it felt like “forever” between the two playing periods. Now I’m looking back at it over a decade later…
Jeez what a trip down memory lane. One thing I miss was when Runescape took itself less seriously. Zamorak was a comical villain and Saradomin was the straight man foil. The Black Knight's fortress was defeated by a cabbage, not the bleak mess that was the death of chivalry.
these runescape archive videos are so fucking nostalgic, brings back so many memories when me and my class mates would hop on runescape after school back in like 05/06
I remember buying the RuneScape Official Handbook at one of my elementary schools book fairs back in 2007ish maybe? It was one of the few books I could sit and stare at all day, day after day and never get tired of learning something new about a game that meant so much to me at the the time (after a year or so on free to play!) Man I wish I could go back to that.
Oh wow, the RuneFest 2010 siggy wall is a massive blast in the feels. Had that as my wallpaper for such a long Time. There was a wall also at the following RF, but can't remember if they made a wallpaper like that for it.
I started playing back in 2003/2004. Thank you for showing me this video and bringing the nostalgia on. I was only 7/8 when I started playing. I don't have my original account anymore, but I do have the account I made when I was 10. I'm 24 going on 25 in September. This was so long ago. You even just reminded me that I created inuyasha based names for accounts, which I have forgotten long ago. I should try to see if I can remember those, as it will be a fresh level 3 on both games, but possibly have a 15 year vet cape.
They went so hard on the game bar because they got a cut of the revenue generated from searching Google through it. (There might have been some tracking and selling of info too for all I know, the Google part was all I know for certain because a lot of different companies did it for that reason.)
Wow... Whoever thought to make that a school project was pretty genius. Almost like writing a book for future generations.. These teachers/classmates basically preserved runescapes history. That's pretty neat.
I remember playing on 05. If I behaved at school, my mum would ring the Jagex membership account number up. £1.50 per minute, 3 minutes long and you had to write down the code at the end of the call for your months membership
Imagine all these content creators bundel their power together and make the varrock wilderness/ hillz/ varrock wilderness pub crowded again f2p and p2p.. this is nostalgic...
@Shilly Goldstein i know right? Creating magic pures to demolish pkers in the wildy (f2p) or msb speccing teams (p2p) when pking was fun and not full hp rng stacking was like nowadays...
Could be a security risk is because there are tens of thousands of accounts with their original account names on the high scores. Someone could enumerate those usernames and attempt to brute force them.
Bringing me back to late grade and early middle school with some of those thank you for those fun memories I had with buddies in class just trying to figure out how to make enough for that oh so expensive Robin Hood hat and full zammy rune armor
Anyone else remember the God Letters? Anyone else remember how Guthix basically said he was a personification of the universe, and that if he was killed the universe would just create him again? And then they retconned all of that? Good times.
Started in 03! My parents wouldn't pay for my membership so I mined coal for gp. I finally got a set of rune armor and got lured to lvl 21 wildy and lost it. I was 8. I cried.
I last played in 2005. Came back in 2020. Good memories. I was basically an ironman back then besides trading other people directly to sell my yew logs
I remember quitting runescape when the grand exchange came out. when free trade was lost and was replaced by this system I was out. I remember selling cooked lobsters to these very high level people PVPng near the varrock wilderness and making quite a bit on certain days. It was soooooo fun. Too bad Jagex got rid of that.
Holy shit...the old log in screen actually looks like something 10 year old me would have gotten addicted to. Thank god I was 12 when I discovered RuneScape...
I was going down to the comments to see if anyone else noticed that. I didnt realise he was 3958 total tho.. I just saw his 900m total xp and thought this wouldnt be possible lol. Zezima was the first to 1b xp and that was 2y+ after this screenshot, So strange haha
Does anyone else remember how a lot of this community back then was like having a bunch of coworkers. You wouldn't add them to your friend list but knew them well enough to stop and chat.
I remember EVERY ONE OF THESE... when I first played RuneScape (back in classic) I genuinely had no idea just how early in the game's lifespan I'd arrived. I assumed it had been years old already, but no... it grew up with me.
TH-cam user Bloodyzero, who uploaded the first RS video on TH-cam, mentioned that clans would upload PK videos to their own forums / websites before TH-cam was around. Wish there was some way of finding them. Would like to see what PKing was like in 2004 RS2.
Good stuff, 04-05 is when I just started so it's neat to see, by 07 I was a pmod and that stuff seems super familiar. By 09 I was making my own servers and clients, I still have some old hard drives with cache dumps and such. If there's anything specific someone is trying to find in RS history I may be able to be of some help
RuneScape back in the mid 2000’s had a special charm to it. In a gaming world caught up in a graphics race, runescape offered a minimalist approach to graphics, and a focus on creating an expansive world of mind-numbing, cumulative, repetitive content that was the perfect escape to relax and unwind from real life. This was the time when everyone talked about games having good or better graphics, but they still looked more or less like crap or were at least very underwhelming. I think this is why runescape thrived in the mid 2000’s. A lot of, if not most people didn’t care about the graphics because it’s not like anything else offered anything that was very exciting in terms of graphics, and it’s not like you really gamed for the graphics back then. But then so many others were on the graphics bandwagon and made fun of runescape because it looked too 2001 for them.
I love seeing these videos of old Runescape. I remember in the fall of 2001 I was 14 and my cousin showed me the game and I was hooked instantly. Back then it was like 4 or 5 servers for the US and I think only a few thousand people playing it.
The blue shirt at 12.25 says "Lvl 99 Party Animal" I bought one of those as a birthday present for my friend who was really into RS back then, but never said no to a party we hosted either.
Honestly this is amazing to see - having started playing at 12 in 2006 and experiencing all these versions of the game, to see this again brings back so many memories. 10/10 my dude good vid 😄
Man almost made me cry some of those photos bring* back some great memories of playing at my friends house who had 4 computers in his room and we would all play together great times
I am actually crying.... I miss 2009-Eoc release, Runescape 2 Golden age forsure..... Maxed account amazing community.... Perfectly released content.... I'm so sad that it only lasted 3ish years..... Bring back 2011 scape!!!!! Summoning and Korasi and all the little noobies in the thriving wilderness oh what a time in history....... Thanks for sharing the video!!! I don't think I will ever stop crying 😭
2008 was when people STOPPED playing as the game got trash. I miss 2004/2005 when I would sit in the computer room at my elementary school and get on rusescape with the boys. I do remember playing Runescape Classic too, sleeping bags and the old skill system. I play OSRS now because it's as close to 2004/2005 as I can get. Still use a mod to make the interface old. All this Quality of Life shit really brings the mood down though.
I spent last night editing this while studying for an exam, so likes are very much appreciated LOL
Jagex probably deleted it because of the embarrassment that became EOC
Love the vid. Gl on the exam!
It's amazing how much I remember this..
I definitely wanted a lvl 99 party animal shirt back in the day.
I liked, Very cool videios
It said Level 99 Party Animal
Jesus Christ this is a nostalgia trip! I remember the 05 page. I spent a ton of time just clicking around, seeing what there was to do. I actually remember most of these pages, but the 05 page really brought back some memories. Thank you for bringing this stuff up. It really does need to be preserved.
I was going to say 'first' but u saw this vid before every1 else cheater
@@KempQ rekt
@@KempQ I'm a time traveler. ;)
Im dying to know how to get the runescape phat icon ngl
@@SmallAndSoft I am a youtube member on his channel, and one of the perks is I get a party hat next to my name for comments on his channel.
Does anyone remember the quest help on the official website where you were allowed 3 tips to help you every 24 hours? I used that to complete so many quests back in the day.
Hell yeah, that was a gamer level strategy for completing Evil Dave's section of RFD. It would literally tell you how many of which spices to use.
I remember using all my hints multiple times just trying to complete Ernest the chicken 😂
Who remembers using Tip.it a few years later?
@@Neon12J runehq for life g
@@thekyleprojekt7996 tip.it was my favorite
It was awesome, it used to help if you were stuck, without ruining the quest, unlike modern guides. Modern guides are useful for one thing, knowing what to bring in advance, saving you unnecessary trips without ruining the quest
Definitely used that Barrows wallpaper with all the brothers back in the day.
Haha right? I have had the map of gielinor on my screen for the past 3 years haha
Swift kit
@@CreatorShorts69 didn’t Gelinor just become a thing?
@@peezyp3855 haha no brother gielinor is the entire map of runescape :)
@@CreatorShorts69 Could you please link the wallpaper? Is it available in 2560x1440?
This was actually mad nostalgic.
So happy to hear that!
It's crazy how many things I recognized, it really is nostalgic
Amazing i miss the old days everything use to be a rush
Seeing that Sal's Realm page brought back so many memories. That site helped me so much in my younger years.
Is weird to know I was one of those 60000 something players around 2004.
D: holy sh*t I'm old!
same lol :D
Congratulations, you’re now one week older
Same g
I was apart of the 15k in 03 holy crap
@@GooLGaming what 2003 was only 15k?
Interesting, in the banks files it starts off by saying "you can only hold 30 items"..does this mean the first inventories ever had 30 slots instead of 28? and if so, could there be an account that endured the test of time with 30 slots filled with logs or something?
Bruh this video hit me in the feels
Where did it all go so wrong
We all grew up man :(
Rs2
@@sly7308 I don't think Jagexs poor company decisions have anything to do with people "growing up".
@@TimeLierG people also grew up, which is why 07 didnt feel like it used too for very long.
The community died, along with IRL communities.
The fallacy of the internet (and MMO's, in conjunction) is that internet communities exist outside of IRL communities. They are predicated on IRL communities.
Community has broken down IRL, and therefore community has broken down in game. Online communities aren't some seperate entity.
In insufferable person IRL will, typically, be insufferable online.
It really is that simple.
Damn seeing the old Varrock again and then the art work of which I remember looking at two of them specifically when I was a kid really took me back.
you legit brought tears to my eyes and i got flooded with so many good memories from this i found this game in 2003 when my parents were divorcing and runescape got me through it so thank you so much man
I started playing in November 2003 on RuneScape Classic. This brought back so many memories of the game, playing with my older brother. Thanks for this so much.
As someone who's been playing rs since midway through classic, this is quite a trip you were right. I believe the reason they throw players in random gear in their screenshots is to preserve the fun. Before everyone got hyper efficient, it wasn't common knowledge what the hell you should take to bandos. Should've seen the shitshow of kbd in his early days. So many didn't have protection at all.
That 2005 website was the one the game used when I first started playing. I thought I'd never see it again. Thanks for this chance
Glad I could help!
Wow that login screen took me back, never thought I’d see it again. Thank you
This is an amazing nostalgia journey even though I started in 2008... colonello you're crying not me
The crazy feeling for me watching is is I was an 04/05 player who left to play other MMOs but returned in 08/09 for awhile and it felt like “forever” between the two playing periods. Now I’m looking back at it over a decade later…
Jeez what a trip down memory lane. One thing I miss was when Runescape took itself less seriously. Zamorak was a comical villain and Saradomin was the straight man foil. The Black Knight's fortress was defeated by a cabbage, not the bleak mess that was the death of chivalry.
Very true! That reminded me of the mine random event. Zamorak, Guthix, and Saradomin just watching you perform emotes haha.
these runescape archive videos are so fucking nostalgic, brings back so many memories when me and my class mates would hop on runescape after school back in like 05/06
I remember buying the RuneScape Official Handbook at one of my elementary schools book fairs back in 2007ish maybe? It was one of the few books I could sit and stare at all day, day after day and never get tired of learning something new about a game that meant so much to me at the the time (after a year or so on free to play!) Man I wish I could go back to that.
Oh wow, the RuneFest 2010 siggy wall is a massive blast in the feels. Had that as my wallpaper for such a long Time. There was a wall also at the following RF, but can't remember if they made a wallpaper like that for it.
I started playing back in 2003/2004. Thank you for showing me this video and bringing the nostalgia on. I was only 7/8 when I started playing. I don't have my original account anymore, but I do have the account I made when I was 10. I'm 24 going on 25 in September. This was so long ago. You even just reminded me that I created inuyasha based names for accounts, which I have forgotten long ago. I should try to see if I can remember those, as it will be a fresh level 3 on both games, but possibly have a 15 year vet cape.
I've been playing since 2001 when I was 11 years old... These screens brought back instant memories it's crazy.
Same! Super nostalgic, going to try get my account back from when I was 11
Seeing all those old screenshots just soothes the soul
I still have my “I brought the wilderness back” shirt! Great video man this was fun to watch.
I miss the 2008 HD aesthetic. I wish it were an option in OSRS
5:10 control and click to run has been in the game for ages so pretty sure it still existed back then
They went so hard on the game bar because they got a cut of the revenue generated from searching Google through it. (There might have been some tracking and selling of info too for all I know, the Google part was all I know for certain because a lot of different companies did it for that reason.)
Interesting! That's really cool actually.
Wow... Whoever thought to make that a school project was pretty genius. Almost like writing a book for future generations.. These teachers/classmates basically preserved runescapes history. That's pretty neat.
I remember playing on 05. If I behaved at school, my mum would ring the Jagex membership account number up. £1.50 per minute, 3 minutes long and you had to write down the code at the end of the call for your months membership
10:33 yoo i had that barrows brother photo as my wallpaper too haha, instant nostalgia
Thanks for the trip down memory land bro! 💙
No problem :D
Omg when you went to the old login screen with the "free game" "members game" I got nostalgia
Imagine all these content creators bundel their power together and make the varrock wilderness/ hillz/ varrock wilderness pub crowded again f2p and p2p.. this is nostalgic...
@Shilly Goldstein i agree
@Shilly Goldstein i know right? Creating magic pures to demolish pkers in the wildy (f2p) or msb speccing teams (p2p) when pking was fun and not full hp rng stacking was like nowadays...
Gah, I can't believe I'm seeing some of these pages again. I started in 2004 and seeing all the pages, screenshots, and everything is pretty amazing
Could be a security risk is because there are tens of thousands of accounts with their original account names on the high scores. Someone could enumerate those usernames and attempt to brute force them.
Bringing me back to late grade and early middle school with some of those thank you for those fun memories I had with buddies in class just trying to figure out how to make enough for that oh so expensive Robin Hood hat and full zammy rune armor
This video flooded me with memories. It’s crazy how much it’s all changed.
I remember playing back in 2005 but unfortunately I got lost as Falador and decided to quit. I picked it back up in 2007
The Crossbow around 5:30, it was the precursor to the bronze crossbow and goblins dropped bolts lol
12:27 it says "99 party animal". I remember that one from back in the day. Good times!
Good ol days making friends at Varrock big Bank :')
That 2005 homepage brought back memories
9:32 I never knew that armor was Armadyl
Really cool vid! Right in the feels
"Set nostalgia to maximum!"
*plays video*
"Perfect."
Zezima at 200m xp was strange to see even though I played before never consistently logged on and payed attention till later on
The old high scores would be the accounts login name
yes, 2003-06, the years I played. I was but a young lad and played it in between WoW. Damn, have times changed.
I'm 35 and the page from 2003 is pure nostalgia.
Cool vid man, thank you for sharing(:
Anyone else remember the God Letters? Anyone else remember how Guthix basically said he was a personification of the universe, and that if he was killed the universe would just create him again? And then they retconned all of that? Good times.
Anyone else notice that 'Old Skool' at 7:00 has 3598 total level?
As someone who greatly enjoys scraping and archiving old nostalgic websites, I have to start doing this now.
Started in 03! My parents wouldn't pay for my membership so I mined coal for gp. I finally got a set of rune armor and got lured to lvl 21 wildy and lost it. I was 8. I cried.
The Nostalgia went through the roof
0:18 Getting ready to to double tap that screen. But I was pleasantly surprised.
I remember playing before members was a thing all the way up to EoC beta and I quit. Good memories
To see all those changes happening and remembering old good times of early 2000 it truly was runescapes gold time well for me at least
in theory finding old runescape forum pages could give away lots of original runescape usernames. not sure if that makes hacking easier or not though
I last played in 2005. Came back in 2020. Good memories. I was basically an ironman back then besides trading other people directly to sell my yew logs
Yoooo that 2003 login screen brings flashbacks
This is SOOO nostalgic
i used to send 5 us $ in the mail wait couple days then boom i had members
I remember quitting runescape when the grand exchange came out. when free trade was lost and was replaced by this system I was out. I remember selling cooked lobsters to these very high level people PVPng near the varrock wilderness and making quite a bit on certain days. It was soooooo fun. Too bad Jagex got rid of that.
I got a pack of those cardpacks when i bought zaros snapback couple of years ago. I wonder where i put it
I actually love when jagex/runescape had Lore based pages and information on theyre own site. Like how cool is that?
For those who remember, the Miner's Tale deserves a short film adaptation
The spot in wild you wasn't sure where was it was just west of rune spot. Miners use to use the ghosts to escape pkers
That shirt says level 99 party animal. I still have it in orange
Dude.. thank you. I forgot about some of this
Crazy thing is I remember rs back In 03. And before.
God I missed Postbag from the Hedge and letters from the Gods.
12:01 "Everything is spanish"
Me: Cries in Portuguese Brazilian
BRUH came here to comment that hahaha
yes portuguese from portugal/spanish from spain but still apply, i now the difference between my mother speaking or my father but ok.
Quando eu vi os anúncios da level up eu senti
@@assistabladerunner pelo menos levelup ainda vende membership de Runescape bem baratinho
Sim, mais barato que o bond e vem mais dias
Holy shit...the old log in screen actually looks like something 10 year old me would have gotten addicted to. Thank god I was 12 when I discovered RuneScape...
You still got addicted though right?
when you know you know.
"I'm not addicted I can quit anytime..." 15 years later...
I was 11 when i started playing in 2003.
7:00
"Rank 1. Old Skool -- Total Level 3958 -- 900M XP"
Anyone know what's going on there?
I'm going to make another comment about this. WTF?
I was going down to the comments to see if anyone else noticed that. I didnt realise he was 3958 total tho.. I just saw his 900m total xp and thought this wouldnt be possible lol. Zezima was the first to 1b xp and that was 2y+ after this screenshot, So strange haha
right!! i want answers!!!!
That shirt definitely said Level 99 Party Animal
Does anyone else remember how a lot of this community back then was like having a bunch of coworkers. You wouldn't add them to your friend list but knew them well enough to stop and chat.
Are we gonna ignore the guy at 7:02 with over 3k total
I remember EVERY ONE OF THESE... when I first played RuneScape (back in classic) I genuinely had no idea just how early in the game's lifespan I'd arrived. I assumed it had been years old already, but no... it grew up with me.
Didn’t realize I played so early in the game either, of course I was like 7/8 so I never got anywhere but I played a lot
THE RUNESCAPE GAME BAR OMFG THE NOSTALGIA
The previews for RS2 with the gifs of 3D models ...
I looked at those screenshots and gifs so much while RS2 was in development
TH-cam user Bloodyzero, who uploaded the first RS video on TH-cam, mentioned that clans would upload PK videos to their own forums / websites before TH-cam was around. Wish there was some way of finding them. Would like to see what PKing was like in 2004 RS2.
Good stuff, 04-05 is when I just started so it's neat to see, by 07 I was a pmod and that stuff seems super familiar. By 09 I was making my own servers and clients, I still have some old hard drives with cache dumps and such. If there's anything specific someone is trying to find in RS history I may be able to be of some help
Thank you for the flashbacks to my childhood where my only anxiety came from being the first to pick up stuff that people were clearing their banks.
RuneScape back in the mid 2000’s had a special charm to it. In a gaming world caught up in a graphics race, runescape offered a minimalist approach to graphics, and a focus on creating an expansive world of mind-numbing, cumulative, repetitive content that was the perfect escape to relax and unwind from real life.
This was the time when everyone talked about games having good or better graphics, but they still looked more or less like crap or were at least very underwhelming. I think this is why runescape thrived in the mid 2000’s. A lot of, if not most people didn’t care about the graphics because it’s not like anything else offered anything that was very exciting in terms of graphics, and it’s not like you really gamed for the graphics back then. But then so many others were on the graphics bandwagon and made fun of runescape because it looked too 2001 for them.
I love seeing these videos of old Runescape. I remember in the fall of 2001 I was 14 and my cousin showed me the game and I was hooked instantly. Back then it was like 4 or 5 servers for the US and I think only a few thousand people playing it.
7:00 Player called Old Skool has a total level of 3598 and total xp of 900m. Is it just a joke or what?
I think this is the most nostalgic video you uploaded
bwareofmef and ladydejavu, holy nostalgia of spending hours staring at the hiscores.
7:00 Is nobody gonna mention the legendary player "Old Skool" with a total level of 3,598 unmatched even till this day?
He was playing Old Skool before Old School 😳
The blue shirt at 12.25 says "Lvl 99 Party Animal"
I bought one of those as a birthday present for my friend who was really into RS back then, but never said no to a party we hosted either.
Honestly this is amazing to see - having started playing at 12 in 2006 and experiencing all these versions of the game, to see this again brings back so many memories. 10/10 my dude good vid 😄
When you realize you've played for 17 years... Yep. Im old.
Man almost made me cry some of those photos bring* back some great memories of playing at my friends house who had 4 computers in his room and we would all play together great times
A lot of us DID play in 05, myself included. Thumbs up this comment if you agree that Crumb should do more on the earlier days of RuneScape
I am actually crying.... I miss 2009-Eoc release, Runescape 2 Golden age forsure..... Maxed account amazing community.... Perfectly released content.... I'm so sad that it only lasted 3ish years..... Bring back 2011 scape!!!!! Summoning and Korasi and all the little noobies in the thriving wilderness oh what a time in history.......
Thanks for sharing the video!!!
I don't think I will ever stop crying 😭
its amazing how runescape has had an effect on so many people. 18 years later and we still here grindin!
my heart sank watching this I almost teared up it was so nostalgic i wish i could get my og account back man this version of runescape was the best!
"The most random gear ever" in 2008 that was the tank strat cuz bandos armor was like 80m a piece and gp wasn't free. God I'm old af
in 2008 tassets were 30m and bcp was 25 hilt was over 30m but 30m back then is like 200m today
2008 was when people STOPPED playing as the game got trash. I miss 2004/2005 when I would sit in the computer room at my elementary school and get on rusescape with the boys. I do remember playing Runescape Classic too, sleeping bags and the old skill system. I play OSRS now because it's as close to 2004/2005 as I can get. Still use a mod to make the interface old. All this Quality of Life shit really brings the mood down though.
@@Jujudo Mate player counts peaked from 2007-2010. GWD1 was released in 2007, RSHD was 2008. Tf are you even talking about.
@@Lucas-sk5iy honestly 😂
@@Jujudo played from 2004-2008, quit little after summoning came out