It's been 20 years

[Jared]

i remember your name Jansen, but i don't think we interacted a whole lot back then, i was.....kind of an asshole based on my post history lol.

I remember Mittenz, and speljohan bjork, all of us had some runescape clients we were working on.

 

OG signatures are a lost art.....

 

[Jansen]

OG signatures are a lost art.....

for real! I still see some good ones in my osrs clan

 

[BrianTirae]

I think everyone just got banned that's why the community died... Ppl would build up a big reputation of trust then cash in on one huge trade I remember

 

[Cheeter]

The 05 legends <3

 

Welcome back i feel like im on Hall of Fame

 

Been around almost that long.. I was like eleven years old or so at the time. hahahaha

 

I think everyone just got banned that's why the community died... Ppl would build up a big reputation of trust then cash in on one huge trade I remember

They still do that... 20 years later lol

 

[Nucleon]

I got an uncomfortable feeling when I realized I'd been around these parts for just 5 years. Then came 10.. Curse you for highlighting year 20+ (lol). Few things make me feel old, but how long I've been in some form of a relationship with RuneScape is one of them.

I was only a tech savvy user during the AutoRune days, but really came into my own as a developer during the Aryan era. I hung around mitb mostly, also partook in the private server scene there which was huuuge at the time. I stuck around mitb, villavu, freddy1990, rsforums, and many non-cheating communities like zybez, tip.it, swiftirc (moderated a few of them), during the time of SCAR, Simba, and RSBot type Java bots until around 2011 or so then took a break from RS in general. I came back briefly in 2014 and really enjoyed the renewed RSC bot APOS (even though RSC was mostly dead at this time), and built a few widely used scripts for that.

In that early era I'd graduated, gotten a job (successfully cited RS bots in my first interview!), gotten married, and had kids. Since then I built a strong career and have done pretty well for myself and family. The RS cheating community really set me up for success (who would have thought - certainly not my parents). I attribute a lot to the competitive nature of building RS bots in my younger years. Many people went to school and got relevant software engineering degrees, but few could honestly say they'd been writing and selling code successfully for years (a decade?) prior to graduating. The experiences in these communities were truly formative and for that I've been really thankful. Funny enough I've kept in touch with a few guys that basically lived the same thing. Wouldn't be surprised if some of you are in a similar boat.

It's funny to mention this since I'm posting here, but I always tried to avoid Sythe (sorry). I'm thankful for its relative stability through the years (something uncommon in this space), but I always seemed to have bad blood and suspect foul play with one or two of the staff members that led to it not being a very nice place to be (not naming names, long gone now). People that we knew were involved in shady business on other sites would somehow build up big businesses here. It always seemed odd. I guess that's been corrected at this point though.

Here's to 20 more! (eeek)

I used to love villavu, that IRC rsc bot was pretty amazing.