Hmm while it's true that Mir went into commercial on that date, open and closed betas were on for months before that. So for those people the 10 years have already passed. The earliest date I could find using the wayback machine is somewhere around May 2001...
By the way does anyone know the name and date of first private server ever? I know it was around the time spider patch came in.
ben should arrange a mir meet for 10th anniversary with all those 4h funds
weown was the only server to get over 100+ at the start, then p69 did it as well, then no1 really got over 100 users till mir revenge, oldskool etc that got 200
there was just so many servers to play back then unless it was just amazing it was never gonna see uber user count
Lol well back then things wern't really about user count, but more about having fun creating a server. There were no expectations of server owners, apart from keeping an eye on the mob lag lol.
Did enjoy the fact a fight broke out between WeOwn and P69 about who has the most users :P Infact i remember someone making a thread called "WeOwn Vs Project69" and had those nifty little user counter images to see who was winning lol
http://www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?68816-The-ChronicalRazor-SagaAnyway since it's all about Mir's 10 year anniversary, does anyone have any nostalgic screenshots, youtube vids or anything else to share? I remember there being a very funny flash made video of mir, with some zombies or ghouls dancing around, a hunt to wooma temple and some other funny bits. Think it was supposed to be made in a few parts but I've only ever seen one of them.
Devil owned ;PI HAD screen shots from 2002-2003 range but since I've had a few clear-outs I've lost my fav screen shot of Alaria killing me for exploiting noobs when hitting people on archers, then there's the one where i was in the middle of the water. (some attr's wasn't filled in)
The first real private server I remember playing was ragezone and Devil server not sure which way around it was but im sure Devil server was first, p69, weown, whiplash and frozen came much later.