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Runescape Can't Escape 2007
Topic Started: Feb 6 2016, 06:17 AM (455 Views)
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Last September, Sam Liu, an Australian boarding school student in his late teens, created a Facebook event: "The day I get my runescape back." The event's date — Friday, September 13th 2024 — was the day that his ban of 101,219 hours, 56 minutes and 9 seconds from the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) RuneScape was set to expire.

Pinned to the top of the event was a message from Liu asking everyone to come together on the day his lengthy ban expires and get “hyped as fuck.”

What Liu did not expect was just how hyped people would get. By the beginning of October, the event grew to 76,000 attendees. As of the first week of November — well after the event was set to private— the number of people attending "The day I get my runescape back" topped out at 118,000.

In less than a month, the Facebook event grew into an off-the-wall message board dedicated to jokes geared towards, but certainly not limited to, RuneScape. All of the most popular posts took the form of joke polls and memes — often with options that involve John Cena. Many visitors wanted to know how Liu had obtained such an absurdly and specifically lengthy ban.

Why did this single event garner so much attention? Why RuneScape, the online gaming phenomenon of 2007? And why is this particular ban so absurdly long? Whatever the intentions behind this throw-away event, the result was so much more than just a niche joke — transforming into a forum for the displaced, celebrating the chaos of an Internet that no longer exists.

-Read more: http://digg.com/2016/old-school-runescape-history
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