I was an avid SwittKit and SwitchSwitch user back in the day and it's easy to get lost in the nostalgia, but let's not forget that we are literally living in the golden era of clients right now with Runelite and 117's HD mod. Thank you Strider and thank you Adam!
I used to just change the URL from the number world it loads to "2". it kind of does the same thing as bookmarking it by saving the link but it worked lol
I was just about to make that comment saying what a struggle for you because I would just change the world # in the URL ha ha. I used to have World 2 bookmarked
Andrew makes me think of that one kid from class that would always remind the teacher to check on everybody's homework if they'd forgotten to ask at the start of class.
A big thank you to those developers & those involved including strider! You made a lot of kids happy & made the groundwork for what we have today, like Runelite. Thank you Colonello for bringing these fun bits of lost RS history.
SwiftSwitch Radio was one of the most fire things to come form the early 2000's. It was like an actual radio, I'd listen to it not for the music, but the host. Oh the days have gone.....
@@cyrusstoke11 then they stopped, dropped from about 2mil players a month to less than 1 mil, then they released leagues 3, and shot up to 3 million players, a month later, dropped down around half a million. Then they smartened up again, and over a year, climbed back up to 1.5 million players.
@@pauliewalnuts2527to be fair sometimes it's not really possible or the right decision. From conflicting desires where no matter what a large segment will be unhappy to sometimes people think they want something without realizing the consequences it would have. You might think 1 location to farm basically everything for a skill is a great idea, but it can lead to less enjoyment from people that as a result explore essentially nowhere besides that one area for long periods of time. People with limited time items like party hats generally don't want them becoming widely available because their item will become less special, but most players want a party hat because... They are special... To make it so everyone can get them ruins part of what makes them desirable. On top of that there is the simple reality that bills have to be paid and most people want everything for free and won't pay unless there is an actual benefit to doing so. Point being it isn't really that simple a lot of the time.
Was a really great video and a nice trip down memory lane. As others have said the client (and later the project) was a large part of my younger self and I was happy to contribute to immortalize it in this video. Big shoutout to all the other developers who made it happen as well especially the main one Strider. I'll send him this video if he hasn't seen it already. :) Thanks for allowing me to contribute!
@@schwimm33 I did play OSRS at release and occasionally log in but nowhere near as much as I used to play. Just a matter of not having as much free time as I used to have.
I loved SS and even more, I loved Zybez radio. That radio was the biggest contributor to my taste in music in my early teens. The radio hosts would even announce random meetups/events out of the blue. Wish Runelite hosted their own radio, because those were some of my favourite RS memories.
Zybez Radio was amazing, I loved that you'd hop in the clan chats to request songs or just chat with all the other people listening to the same DJ. The community was super sick at that time, I truly miss those days.
Bummer runescape reached its peak in the 2000s i hated that kind of music even new music is slightly better but any decade would be better in terms of music.
@@BenThompsonTheLord Thank you so much. It was a great time and many many hours were enjoyed listening, requesting songs and playing the occasional hide and seek! Great times!
I actually didn't know swift kit existed until osrs. I bought the swift kit mobile app back in the day for it, but I sadly missed out on the golden era of swift switch because I didn't know it existed. As a player who's been playing since 2004, I am surprised I had never heard of it during its peak. That refreshing the page to finally get into the world you wanted and spam clicking login really brings back some good memories. It was always a great feeling whenever you got into a world with max players. I miss the social aspect of the game back then too. We're sadly a lot less social nowadays, and it kinda makes me sad.
@@RsChrisG SwiftSwitch gave you access to high scores, had skill calculators/combat level calculators, a rudimentary market system using the Zybez market prices, and of course the world hopper.
The super simple IRC client was my favorite feature. I also had mIRC and even made personal chat bots using that client, but nothing could ever replace SS's client... Good times
I wanted to use SwiftSwitch so bad as a kid for quick hopping worlds, but my family was 100% certain that it was gonna give us a virus. When Jagex finally added world switching I almost got my ass beat because my brother told my mom that I installed it.
I loved that swift kit had a built in mp3 player/radio and a calculator on default. The highscores tab was just the icing on the cake. Loved those plays of playing. Shit was still a mystery haha
It’s crazy. Think if Jagex tried to communicate with the Client owners first instead of just posting that BS and think if Jagex actually tried to improve their game instead of hinder the people developing it for them.
This is the really bizarre thing. Jagex/Gower are very bad at programming. Here (and at many other times) they had people voluntarily developing big, user-facing parts of their game, for free and enhancing the ecosystem (cf the radio). What's more, since there were multiple people doing it, it was essentially a breadth first search for desirable functionality that couldn't be achieved by Jagex doing it in-house even if they had competent programmers and money to pay them. Jagex are known for severely underpaying staff (hence why they've never had competent programmers). Surely, this would mean that they would welcome 3rd party development (modulo forcing them not to hide ads) as it saved them money.. but no. It genuinely boggles the mind. Someone spent 2k hours producing an HD version of your client? Any company that claims poverty would snap the dev's hand off for doing them the favour. Jagex instead threatens and sh-ts all over him because they supposedly have their own version 'in preliminary stages of being under discussion'. Wut?
Interestingly, the year that Jagex went off on all third party clients was the year that the US passed a law tightening rules on moderation of content made for children. Given their history of poor communication with the community, I wouldn't be surprised if they were freaking out about lawsuits stemming from toxic chat on 3rd party clients
loved SS and swiftkit! the IRC was my home for so long for clanning or pest control worlds, it was so much better organized and ahead of its time, took jagex 10+ years to get a clan chat setup
14:05 The built in world switcher jagex released wasn't as great as what we have today though. When you logged in you'd be in a lobby to select a world, you'd have to log out to lobby any time you wanted to select another world. It was released on March 3, 2010 along with the update renaming Hitpoints to Constitution. That world switcher is still being used in RS3 to this day as far as I'm aware, along with hop-to options on your friends list, which isn't nearly as good as we have it on OSRS.
Ohhh man.. SwiftKit. So many years spent playing runescape in SK.. truly nostalgic for me. Hiscores panel was life. Quick links to anything you ever needed and not to mention the in-client calcs. Made us all feel like we somehow knew what we were doing. Also made it extremely easy to play exactly the way you wanted to. Long live SwiftKit!
Anyone remember Heart Unit pest control IRC chat, having to having high enough combat stats (like 110+ combat level when that was really rare) to join. And having to all hop worlds together whenever people found out which world we were on for pest control. Was able to do like 15-30 second pest control games for speedy points. Back when all portals spawned at the same time and you could play pest control in any world and there was only one boat for everyone. I used my 119 combat main to join Heart Unit IRC and used it to find the world for my pure I made. Was one of the very first purses with ice barrage and 90+ str because of how fast you could train with PC points back then. Also they used to call them purse “PC Prods” or “PC products” because it was also the only way to train combat stats without training HP using points, so it was the only way to get higher str or range than someone else could at your combat since they had to get HP up at a set rate
I had huge flashbacks to 117HD when you talked about Jagex trying to shut down a popular client and a riot ensuing. And then even bigger flashbacks when Jagex announced their own world switcher afterwards
i remember playing runescape on swift kit, never tried swift switch. was pretty much the coolest thing having your own IRC chat with your friends back in the day haha good times man good times
In 2006 when pest control came out there was only 1 boat and everyone used the one boat so they lost a lost of games. We used swiftkit back in the day and had a 100+ cb team world and it would change about every 30 min to keep it secret. My friend would leak me the world and I would follow these guys around at like 65 cb. We were winning games in 30 seconds getting 1 point every game. ( This was before shields and the current point system) 1 Point back then was worth quite a big of xp. I was getting like 220k strength xp per hour at 65 cb :)
Oh man, the glory days of W62 being F2P. Used to hang out in Varrock middle between 2007-2010. Great group that used to hang there. I seem to be the only person from the group of people I talked to that still plays.
Great memories brought back while watching the footage on this one. I remember using swiftswitch for RSC all the time and eventually moving on to RS2. Stuck with it for awhile but eventually also moved on.
I remember when I took a little break back in the day, right when swifrswitch changed to swiftkit, and when I went back I didn't know what happened, and it took me like a week to download the new named client because I thought it was really suspicious. Good days.
What I remember most about SS and SK was the inline browser. In the old days, if you switched tabs or even had another window above the RS one, everything would just lag like crazy. So being able to search things or just use a calculator was truly game changing.
Oh wow Swift Switch! I remember this! High score look up, item look ups, the irc! Wow. Notepad stored so many valuable account details. I also had the modded swift switch. It had a account creator, auto spammer, and other things I can't remember. Wow. Good times man
My childhood memories live in screenshots from SS and SW. those clients, for their time, truly made everything so much better. We’ve come a long way fellas.
I'm a little disturbed at how I recognize basically all of those ads from playing runescape growing up. Laura Croft always watching over us while we got scammed of our mithril armour
I really love that this video has those old ads. One of my earliest memories is being playRunescape on the family computer at 4 years old and falling for some "Shoot 3 targets, win a free iPod" scam ad. Fortunately I was too young to even have our address memorized, so my parents were just very confused when I asked them.
seeing that webpage world selector with 1 & 2 completely full.....man that hit hard....such great memories....simply logging into the game was literally so exciting once you were able to, let alone getting to playing...The hours i spent flipping items in fally park w2 maaan
A neat way you used to get around the world switching was by loading into a random world then going to the browser and changing the text from let’s say 301-302! It worked very well and if you tried to log in it would just tell you the world was full! So you just sat there with your credentials plugged in clicking log in continue log in continue and so forth untill you logged in
12:25 I just noticed the Sal's Realm logo. Fun little thing, it used to be a dark blue background before it was made transparent. Not that it matters but there was one little pixel that made it look weird that wasn't part of the logo that was removed. Again, not that important but I was the one who submitted that. Ngl, I feel pretty good every time I see that logo now. :D
i remember using ss, it was good times and really helped us get into world 2 to start merchanting. really sucks that it died out but hey, from its ashes we got runelite.
I remember listening to that Zybez radio and it used to play BANGERS on some of the stations. Especially the Alt and House/Trance stations. Which I could find a list of all that music and listen to it again man. Holy hell. And those IRCs! What a time.
11:22 I remember meeting Zaflart Orts while he was mining iron in f2p after I had just started playing. I remember he told me his name was the dog's names from the jetsons backwards.
I remember the swift kit hack and I was one of the poor dumb little kids that got hacked because of the rat. I didn't notice it at first because I had a bank pin and was doing mini games at the time so I didn't have items on me. the next day I came back after logging out with my items, and came back to them gone. I lost a purple phat that day along with full dragon. saddest day of my life up to that point.
In my 17 years of TH-cam I have NEVER binged watched a TH-camr like I did with you today. Easily watched 20 vids while skilling today. Love the channel
am I the only one that feels like the mod that kept banning the client seems to just have a vendetta against the clients that did the devs jobs better than they did themselves?....
thats very interesting.. i started playing runescape in 2005 and literally never heard of swift kit and i didnt even know 3rd party clients existed other than bot clients for the longest time. first client i learned of was runelite in 2018 lmfao. im honestly surprised there were 3rd party clients before osrs
I remember trying to get into world 2 sometimes spend 7 or 8 mins spamming log in as fast as we could. But one thing I haven't seen any videos on is at some point they fixed all shops to have infinite runes arrows an what ever else the shop had an no one can remember it i can't remember what year or how long it lasted they was some other big updates at the same time but can't remember what :(
I remember. The values didn't change on the bought items and I remember you could print alching ruby rings from the Zanaris jewelry shop. Iirc it was 2008-9 I got u bud dw
Never understood world switchers. In the URL it literally said the world number. Change 84 to 2 for example , hit enter boom on the world 2 login screen
I never used SwiftSwitch but I literally got goosebumps when I realized you were about to say SwiftKit hahaha. Definitely used that and have fond memories of it
I love your research filled documentaries on this game! Keep up the great work. You are a blessing to this community and are so interesting to listen to.
Back in the day you could get into world 2 by picking a random world and then change the url for world 2. You still had to spam log in but atleast you were on the page. Edit: nvm you just mentioned bookmarking the page lol
i remember one of the reasons they wanted to get rid of swiftkit was the iirc. after dicing was banned people would use the chat and random generator in it to continue "dicing"
Greatest client of all time for its time. I used it since I started playing in 2006 all the way to 2012 before quitting when eoc came out. I have so many good memories from screenshots I took back then on my old computer because of the client.
It feels weird that after so many years now I know why my bookmarked world stopped working and what happened to swiftkit 😁 Ps: usually I would switch world just by changing the world number in url as I had few favourite that I liked to hop on.
I remember the whole change and the client panicking when they said they were going to ban the client 😂 then them not banning it I was so happy it was a big part of life was a part of a merching clan until I realised they were out for them selves so I used the item flipping price part and made a lot it was great SS and SK thankyou for bringing back memories I smiled all through this clip. RSN: V 0 0
back when i was an 11 yr old noob, i had the big brain idea to run 3 accounts in a train and buy eyes of newts at the wizards shop as an f2per for like 3gp ea and sell to members via forums for like 300ea. i was making close to 1m / hr and this would have been in like 2006-2007. did it for maybe 5 hrs in total but that was like a full 2 weeks of gameplay back then and 2 weeks was basically a lifetime. lol
majority jmods was using irc and 99% of high level comunity this was one of the reasons ppl used sk program second of all jagex couldnt ban any player who used sk because it was imposible to track it. it was program with tools and in that program was built in browser. so there was no difference if u play through mozila or ie or sk.
The dev(s) of that client really made an effort to co-exist with Jagex and their demands. I respect that. And dealing with that hacker malware stuff? I hope they all found good lives afterwards.
The ads for Tomb Raider and Sinbad make me feel really old. I think this is the first video that I've seen where my generation feels so long ago, and we're still in it lmfao.
yes I used swift switch right when it came out.. I was in a clan called #Blazing_Hearts.. Swift Switch had stuff that Runelite still doesn't.. the IRC chat was badass! #Pest_Control channel would be level 120+ and once enough low levels crashed we would just type in IRC and switch worlds (even when offline) it was awesome!!! NO ADS, Price lookup, High scores, clan chats, Personal chats (online &offline) I miss it tbh
Used to swift kit a lot back in the day I preferred it over the regular because I could get into World 2 easily. Hell I even used it all the way up to 2012.
When I was a kid, I remember switching worlds was simply just changing the world number in the address bar to load up the login screen for the world I want to go to. Why did everyone complicate it so much by bookmarks and making switchers?
I don't miss any of you botting guys. I understand the botting, but I wish to never see you again. Botting was too much for our game, we're efficient without bots nowadays.
The world was FULL but if I remember WAY WAY back correctly......in your browser , I am sure I was able to MANUALLY put the world number in the URL and just click enter, type in details, and ye- spam to login , correct? I didnt have to wait to get lucky that the world wasnt "FULL" in the list to select it... I am almost sure of this....... but its been a HOT minute lol.
the best trick i learned when trying to get into world 2 as a kid was realizing I could just click a random world and manually change the url to 2 in place of whatever world i clicked, then it was just a matter of spamming enter till i got in and bam! only a 3 minute wait before i was overpaying for items. good times
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Don't want it. Don't want it. Don't want it. Don't want it. Don't WANT IT!!!!
Shilling makes you look bad
That's a no from me, dawg
I switched from Firefox. Worth it.
The reason they wanted to keep people refreshing the worlds on the site because each time you saw a new ad.
That's a really good point actually!
I was an avid SwittKit and SwitchSwitch user back in the day and it's easy to get lost in the nostalgia, but let's not forget that we are literally living in the golden era of clients right now with Runelite and 117's HD mod. Thank you Strider and thank you Adam!
HDOS ftw - the 117 mod is fantastic too :)
@Chad Meckstroth HDOS has a variety of plugins now :)
I used to just change the URL from the number world it loads to "2". it kind of does the same thing as bookmarking it by saving the link but it worked lol
Made me feel like a certified Hackerman
I used to do this as well and was thinking about it while watching that part of the video.
You literally refreshed a memory in my brain I forgot I had. I remember changing the number In the url and just hold enter to log in
I was just about to make that comment saying what a struggle for you because I would just change the world # in the URL ha ha.
I used to have World 2 bookmarked
Brooooo I thought I was the only one who did that, no one's ever mentioned it before
Andrew makes me think of that one kid from class that would always remind the teacher to check on everybody's homework if they'd forgotten to ask at the start of class.
A big thank you to those developers & those involved including strider!
You made a lot of kids happy & made the groundwork for what we have today, like Runelite.
Thank you Colonello for bringing these fun bits of lost RS history.
SwiftSwitch Radio was one of the most fire things to come form the early 2000's. It was like an actual radio, I'd listen to it not for the music, but the host. Oh the days have gone.....
I played RuneScape every day as a child and have no memories of these things going on in the background. I was so cluelessly immersed.
hahahaha same
if only jagex could learn to communicate with their customers, instead of being like an abusive passive aggressive partner
They did, it took legit losing almost everything and most employees but they did.
@@cyrusstoke11 then they stopped, dropped from about 2mil players a month to less than 1 mil, then they released leagues 3, and shot up to 3 million players, a month later, dropped down around half a million.
Then they smartened up again, and over a year, climbed back up to 1.5 million players.
i never understood why devs dont just give the community what they want?
@@pauliewalnuts2527 muney
@@pauliewalnuts2527to be fair sometimes it's not really possible or the right decision. From conflicting desires where no matter what a large segment will be unhappy to sometimes people think they want something without realizing the consequences it would have. You might think 1 location to farm basically everything for a skill is a great idea, but it can lead to less enjoyment from people that as a result explore essentially nowhere besides that one area for long periods of time. People with limited time items like party hats generally don't want them becoming widely available because their item will become less special, but most players want a party hat because... They are special... To make it so everyone can get them ruins part of what makes them desirable. On top of that there is the simple reality that bills have to be paid and most people want everything for free and won't pay unless there is an actual benefit to doing so. Point being it isn't really that simple a lot of the time.
Was a really great video and a nice trip down memory lane. As others have said the client (and later the project) was a large part of my younger self and I was happy to contribute to immortalize it in this video. Big shoutout to all the other developers who made it happen as well especially the main one Strider. I'll send him this video if he hasn't seen it already. :)
Thanks for allowing me to contribute!
Did some of you guys give osrs a try or did y’all quit for good?
Thanks for contributing to this community!
Thank you so much for your contributions to SS/SK and your help on this video! :D
@@schwimm33 I did play OSRS at release and occasionally log in but nowhere near as much as I used to play. Just a matter of not having as much free time as I used to have.
I loved SS and even more, I loved Zybez radio. That radio was the biggest contributor to my taste in music in my early teens. The radio hosts would even announce random meetups/events out of the blue. Wish Runelite hosted their own radio, because those were some of my favourite RS memories.
Zybez Radio was amazing, I loved that you'd hop in the clan chats to request songs or just chat with all the other people listening to the same DJ. The community was super sick at that time, I truly miss those days.
you are now on an FBI watch list for that first sentence lol
Bummer runescape reached its peak in the 2000s i hated that kind of music even new music is slightly better but any decade would be better in terms of music.
Glad you liked it :) I enjoyed coding zybez radio on the website with a shout cast server and Winamp, and the live chat feature :)
@@BenThompsonTheLord Thank you so much. It was a great time and many many hours were enjoyed listening, requesting songs and playing the occasional hide and seek! Great times!
I actually didn't know swift kit existed until osrs. I bought the swift kit mobile app back in the day for it, but I sadly missed out on the golden era of swift switch because I didn't know it existed. As a player who's been playing since 2004, I am surprised I had never heard of it during its peak. That refreshing the page to finally get into the world you wanted and spam clicking login really brings back some good memories. It was always a great feeling whenever you got into a world with max players. I miss the social aspect of the game back then too. We're sadly a lot less social nowadays, and it kinda makes me sad.
it wasnt that crazy. it basically just gave you access to the highscores, and a chat system.
@@RsChrisG SwiftSwitch gave you access to high scores, had skill calculators/combat level calculators, a rudimentary market system using the Zybez market prices, and of course the world hopper.
@@SlightlyM3ntal I know.. I used it. Just in hindsight comparing to RL/OSB etc it was basically bare bones.
same i always used clickalot stuff
I'm sure you did hear about it during its peak, but maybe you just thought all of us talking about SS all the time were just super into Germany? XD
I totally forgot I used this client, when you have played on and off since 2002 you forget what has gone on! appreciate the video immensely.
The super simple IRC client was my favorite feature. I also had mIRC and even made personal chat bots using that client, but nothing could ever replace SS's client... Good times
I wanted to use SwiftSwitch so bad as a kid for quick hopping worlds, but my family was 100% certain that it was gonna give us a virus. When Jagex finally added world switching I almost got my ass beat because my brother told my mom that I installed it.
When I used it didn't give me a virus lol
You actually asked to install random things on the family pc?
@@CAMSLAYER13 i was a good kid until i kept getting in trouble for asking permission
LMFAO dude what a memory
reminder that if you have evidence you were abused as a child you can sue your parents for it at any time. there is no statue of limitations
I loved that swift kit had a built in mp3 player/radio and a calculator on default. The highscores tab was just the icing on the cake. Loved those plays of playing. Shit was still a mystery haha
I played until 6am with the same 5 songs on repeat lmao
Zybez radio 😀
The notes on my SwiftSwitch client are probably still goals I haven't achieved in OSRS
It’s crazy. Think if Jagex tried to communicate with the Client owners first instead of just posting that BS and think if Jagex actually tried to improve their game instead of hinder the people developing it for them.
This is the really bizarre thing. Jagex/Gower are very bad at programming. Here (and at many other times) they had people voluntarily developing big, user-facing parts of their game, for free and enhancing the ecosystem (cf the radio). What's more, since there were multiple people doing it, it was essentially a breadth first search for desirable functionality that couldn't be achieved by Jagex doing it in-house even if they had competent programmers and money to pay them. Jagex are known for severely underpaying staff (hence why they've never had competent programmers). Surely, this would mean that they would welcome 3rd party development (modulo forcing them not to hide ads) as it saved them money.. but no. It genuinely boggles the mind. Someone spent 2k hours producing an HD version of your client? Any company that claims poverty would snap the dev's hand off for doing them the favour. Jagex instead threatens and sh-ts all over him because they supposedly have their own version 'in preliminary stages of being under discussion'. Wut?
The grandfather of the runescape clients. Thanks to all who worked on SwiftSwitch and SwiftKit, truly fond memories of these programs.
I remember using Swiftswitch and the later versions under Zybez. I remember loving the radio with player DJs that took shifts
Strider really paved the way and arguably extended the life of this game far beyond what it would have been
Interestingly, the year that Jagex went off on all third party clients was the year that the US passed a law tightening rules on moderation of content made for children. Given their history of poor communication with the community, I wouldn't be surprised if they were freaking out about lawsuits stemming from toxic chat on 3rd party clients
Interesting! I also wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the reasoning.
Jagex isn't an American company.
@@InstantK0ed Companies doing business in the US have to comply with US laws
@@stephenchurch1784 Personally I'd like to see all the American players leave.
loved SS and swiftkit! the IRC was my home for so long for clanning or pest control worlds, it was so much better organized and ahead of its time, took jagex 10+ years to get a clan chat setup
Way back in the day there used to be radio FCs where players held hide n seek, trivia, and all sorts of games for prizes. Good times..
14:05 The built in world switcher jagex released wasn't as great as what we have today though. When you logged in you'd be in a lobby to select a world, you'd have to log out to lobby any time you wanted to select another world. It was released on March 3, 2010 along with the update renaming Hitpoints to Constitution. That world switcher is still being used in RS3 to this day as far as I'm aware, along with hop-to options on your friends list, which isn't nearly as good as we have it on OSRS.
I still remember printing out literal maps back in the day and trying to navigate instead of having the world map open
Thats awesome!! I did the same thing with quest guides. Good times :)
Ohhh man.. SwiftKit. So many years spent playing runescape in SK.. truly nostalgic for me. Hiscores panel was life. Quick links to anything you ever needed and not to mention the in-client calcs. Made us all feel like we somehow knew what we were doing. Also made it extremely easy to play exactly the way you wanted to. Long live SwiftKit!
Anyone remember Heart Unit pest control IRC chat, having to having high enough combat stats (like 110+ combat level when that was really rare) to join. And having to all hop worlds together whenever people found out which world we were on for pest control. Was able to do like 15-30 second pest control games for speedy points. Back when all portals spawned at the same time and you could play pest control in any world and there was only one boat for everyone.
I used my 119 combat main to join Heart Unit IRC and used it to find the world for my pure I made. Was one of the very first purses with ice barrage and 90+ str because of how fast you could train with PC points back then. Also they used to call them purse “PC Prods” or “PC products” because it was also the only way to train combat stats without training HP using points, so it was the only way to get higher str or range than someone else could at your combat since they had to get HP up at a set rate
Ah good days listening to disturbed via swiftkit while scaping
Used to love the radio music and hang out in the chat. Thanks for the memories, Swiftswitch/Swiftkit.
Rest in Peace.
I had huge flashbacks to 117HD when you talked about Jagex trying to shut down a popular client and a riot ensuing. And then even bigger flashbacks when Jagex announced their own world switcher afterwards
i remember playing runescape on swift kit, never tried swift switch. was pretty much the coolest thing having your own IRC chat with your friends back in the day haha good times man good times
In 2006 when pest control came out there was only 1 boat and everyone used the one boat so they lost a lost of games. We used swiftkit back in the day and had a 100+ cb team world and it would change about every 30 min to keep it secret. My friend would leak me the world and I would follow these guys around at like 65 cb. We were winning games in 30 seconds getting 1 point every game. ( This was before shields and the current point system) 1 Point back then was worth quite a big of xp. I was getting like 220k strength xp per hour at 65 cb :)
That's awesome! Sounds like a lot of fun. :D
Lmao those guys like trade me for world (100+) would put an amount of coins in trade window and the number of coins was the world to go to. Good times
Oh man, the glory days of W62 being F2P. Used to hang out in Varrock middle between 2007-2010. Great group that used to hang there. I seem to be the only person from the group of people I talked to that still plays.
Great memories brought back while watching the footage on this one. I remember using swiftswitch for RSC all the time and eventually moving on to RS2. Stuck with it for awhile but eventually also moved on.
dude your videos just somehow capture the magic of my childhood internet usage, gives me nostalgia and feelings i didnt even remember were in me
I remember when I took a little break back in the day, right when swifrswitch changed to swiftkit, and when I went back I didn't know what happened, and it took me like a week to download the new named client because I thought it was really suspicious.
Good days.
What I remember most about SS and SK was the inline browser. In the old days, if you switched tabs or even had another window above the RS one, everything would just lag like crazy. So being able to search things or just use a calculator was truly game changing.
Oh wow Swift Switch! I remember this! High score look up, item look ups, the irc! Wow. Notepad stored so many valuable account details. I also had the modded swift switch. It had a account creator, auto spammer, and other things I can't remember. Wow. Good times man
My childhood memories live in screenshots from SS and SW. those clients, for their time, truly made everything so much better. We’ve come a long way fellas.
As a heavy user of SS and SK I totally did not know all of this about it, and really appreciated the history lesson
I'm a little disturbed at how I recognize basically all of those ads from playing runescape growing up. Laura Croft always watching over us while we got scammed of our mithril armour
Swift Switch and it's radio was amazing.
I really love that this video has those old ads. One of my earliest memories is being playRunescape on the family computer at 4 years old and falling for some "Shoot 3 targets, win a free iPod" scam ad. Fortunately I was too young to even have our address memorized, so my parents were just very confused when I asked them.
seeing that webpage world selector with 1 & 2 completely full.....man that hit hard....such great memories....simply logging into the game was literally so exciting once you were able to, let alone getting to playing...The hours i spent flipping items in fally park w2 maaan
A neat way you used to get around the world switching was by loading into a random world then going to the browser and changing the text from let’s say 301-302! It worked very well and if you tried to log in it would just tell you the world was full! So you just sat there with your credentials plugged in clicking log in continue log in continue and so forth untill you logged in
12:25 I just noticed the Sal's Realm logo. Fun little thing, it used to be a dark blue background before it was made transparent. Not that it matters but there was one little pixel that made it look weird that wasn't part of the logo that was removed. Again, not that important but I was the one who submitted that. Ngl, I feel pretty good every time I see that logo now. :D
i remember using ss, it was good times and really helped us get into world 2 to start merchanting. really sucks that it died out but hey, from its ashes we got runelite.
I remember this back in the day. It's tedious when players go to war with the devs.
I remember listening to that Zybez radio and it used to play BANGERS on some of the stations. Especially the Alt and House/Trance stations. Which I could find a list of all that music and listen to it again man. Holy hell. And those IRCs! What a time.
11:22 I remember meeting Zaflart Orts while he was mining iron in f2p after I had just started playing. I remember he told me his name was the dog's names from the jetsons backwards.
honestly so cool how much effort these guys put in to help 10s of thousands of players enjoy the game more.
I remember the swift kit hack and I was one of the poor dumb little kids that got hacked because of the rat. I didn't notice it at first because I had a bank pin and was doing mini games at the time so I didn't have items on me. the next day I came back after logging out with my items, and came back to them gone. I lost a purple phat that day along with full dragon. saddest day of my life up to that point.
In my 17 years of TH-cam I have NEVER binged watched a TH-camr like I did with you today. Easily watched 20 vids while skilling today. Love the channel
Been playing 20 years and never once have I heard about Swiftswitch... It really wasn't that hard to refresh to loggin lol
dude its sooo nice to come home and see a colonello upload! thank you for you work!
Thank you!! :D
damn imagine if we went back to all worlds having 1k+ population per world
Well we also have probably 100+ more worlds now than we did back in the day
Swiftkit was my life. Basically required to clan back in the day. When you showed the name change I couldn't believe I didn't realize it before.
All hail swiftswitch. Back when changing worlds without going back to the website was considered too op.
Joining a full world back then should've been a skill in its own right. The nostalgia man. You've captured it all once again.
Had favorites in IE for worlds that were full. I recall there was a unique URL for each world
am I the only one that feels like the mod that kept banning the client seems to just have a vendetta against the clients that did the devs jobs better than they did themselves?....
to this day othere still dev better🤣
That aint no mod... that was the creator of runescape
thats very interesting.. i started playing runescape in 2005 and literally never heard of swift kit and i didnt even know 3rd party clients existed other than bot clients for the longest time. first client i learned of was runelite in 2018 lmfao. im honestly surprised there were 3rd party clients before osrs
I didn't discover SwiftSwitch until 2012 so I'm in a similar boat haha.
Yea same here only the most hard core used it not players like me that just mindlessly wandered around the world a few hours a week.
love how yt recommended this video for me and it's on my birth date
Holy shit I used to use this back in the day! I 100% forgot this was a thing. Holy cow. What a blast from the past
Just booted up an old laptop and still have SwiftKit Launcher v1.11 on it. Pretty cool to see after watching this video earlier this week
A hack i used to use via a browser was just changing the world number in the URL Link. It helped me so much
I remember me and my 2 brothers both trying to get into world 2 in like 2006-2007 era😂
God i love runescape.
i miss SwiftSwitch - it had metal radio channels and stuff like bookmarking and everything - was amazing
I remember trying to get into world 2 sometimes spend 7 or 8 mins spamming log in as fast as we could. But one thing I haven't seen any videos on is at some point they fixed all shops to have infinite runes arrows an what ever else the shop had an no one can remember it i can't remember what year or how long it lasted they was some other big updates at the same time but can't remember what :(
Interesting! I'll have to look into that :)
I remember. The values didn't change on the bought items and I remember you could print alching ruby rings from the Zanaris jewelry shop. Iirc it was 2008-9 I got u bud dw
i remember this as well. it was during the time when there was no free trade i believe.
Dude I'd loved swiftswitch back in the day! It was so cool that you could change the color schemes and stuff on the client.
7:40 I like how Jagex says "Bored?" about their own game for FTP
i never used clients until OSbuddy but i did use the mobile app for xp calculators and such and omg that was a memory buried so deep until today.
Good ol swiftswitch, I still have the old bookmarks of all my favorite worlds on my old computer.
Zybez Radio was on some wild shit. I always remember the EDM track choices and the Avenue Q track plays lmfao
Never understood world switchers. In the URL it literally said the world number. Change 84 to 2 for example , hit enter boom on the world 2 login screen
I never used SwiftSwitch but I literally got goosebumps when I realized you were about to say SwiftKit hahaha. Definitely used that and have fond memories of it
''No SS, no RS''
yea not a slogan I will be shouting xD
I love your research filled documentaries on this game! Keep up the great work. You are a blessing to this community and are so interesting to listen to.
Back in the day you could get into world 2 by picking a random world and then change the url for world 2. You still had to spam log in but atleast you were on the page.
Edit: nvm you just mentioned bookmarking the page lol
i remember one of the reasons they wanted to get rid of swiftkit was the iirc. after dicing was banned people would use the chat and random generator in it to continue "dicing"
Greatest client of all time for its time. I used it since I started playing in 2006 all the way to 2012 before quitting when eoc came out. I have so many good memories from screenshots I took back then on my old computer because of the client.
I used it more after it had changed to SwiftKit but man this was so nostalgic!!
It feels weird that after so many years now I know why my bookmarked world stopped working and what happened to swiftkit 😁
Ps: usually I would switch world just by changing the world number in url as I had few favourite that I liked to hop on.
I remember how popular this client add on was. It was really helpful. Same with swift kit
I remember the whole change and the client panicking when they said they were going to ban the client 😂 then them not banning it I was so happy it was a big part of life was a part of a merching clan until I realised they were out for them selves so I used the item flipping price part and made a lot it was great SS and SK thankyou for bringing back memories I smiled all through this clip.
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World 34 was my go to world for no reason other than preference 1 and 2 was just if i wanted trade
I just love that no matter what falidor is the riot city of choice for runescapers.
back when i was an 11 yr old noob, i had the big brain idea to run 3 accounts in a train and buy eyes of newts at the wizards shop as an f2per for like 3gp ea and sell to members via forums for like 300ea. i was making close to 1m / hr and this would have been in like 2006-2007. did it for maybe 5 hrs in total but that was like a full 2 weeks of gameplay back then and 2 weeks was basically a lifetime. lol
majority jmods was using irc and 99% of high level comunity this was one of the reasons ppl used sk program second of all jagex couldnt ban any player who used sk because it was imposible to track it. it was program with tools and in that program was built in browser. so there was no difference if u play through mozila or ie or sk.
"No SS no RS" Bruh no 🤣🤣🤣
The dev(s) of that client really made an effort to co-exist with Jagex and their demands. I respect that. And dealing with that hacker malware stuff? I hope they all found good lives afterwards.
The ads for Tomb Raider and Sinbad make me feel really old. I think this is the first video that I've seen where my generation feels so long ago, and we're still in it lmfao.
That picture of Andrew scolding when you said he wasn’t a fan of cheating 😂
yes I used swift switch right when it came out.. I was in a clan called #Blazing_Hearts.. Swift Switch had stuff that Runelite still doesn't.. the IRC chat was badass! #Pest_Control channel would be level 120+ and once enough low levels crashed we would just type in IRC and switch worlds (even when offline) it was awesome!!! NO ADS, Price lookup, High scores, clan chats, Personal chats (online &offline) I miss it tbh
Used to swift kit a lot back in the day I preferred it over the regular because I could get into World 2 easily. Hell I even used it all the way up to 2012.
When I was a kid, I remember switching worlds was simply just changing the world number in the address bar to load up the login screen for the world I want to go to. Why did everyone complicate it so much by bookmarks and making switchers?
i honestly miss rsbuddy and botting. It was exciting waking up to see i had 60 RC or Agility
I don't miss any of you botting guys. I understand the botting, but I wish to never see you again. Botting was too much for our game, we're efficient without bots nowadays.
The world was FULL but if I remember WAY WAY back correctly......in your browser , I am sure I was able to MANUALLY put the world number in the URL and just click enter, type in details, and ye- spam to login , correct? I didnt have to wait to get lucky that the world wasnt "FULL" in the list to select it... I am almost sure of this....... but its been a HOT minute lol.
Not just the bookmark o.O
the best trick i learned when trying to get into world 2 as a kid was realizing I could just click a random world and manually change the url to 2 in place of whatever world i clicked, then it was just a matter of spamming enter till i got in and bam! only a 3 minute wait before i was overpaying for items. good times