1997, Age 15
Early on in my internetscapades, I discovered a newsgroup about dragons (ding!) which led me to the related MUCK. I get to be a dragon? Hells yeah, let's do it! Exploring the world, albeit text based, was still exciting just from the prospect that normal, everyday users were the ones building it.
And then, when I figured out how to make my own addition? It was a flashback to building Doom levels, only with a much more variable context. My excitement was short lived, however, when I discovered that it actually wasn't the norm for users to go exploring the world, but rather to sit in the main garden and treat it like any ordinary chat room. Boo that.
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