It's hard to think that anyone who played Runescape in the 00s walked away without ever having their account hacked. It was kind of a given that one day you'd log on and find your character in an unfamiliar place completely stripped of all their possessions. It was a fitting thing to have happen in game set itself apart from other MMOs with the brutality of your character losing everything they were holding upon death. The social dynamics of the game itself with it's untethered player to player…

If there's one person you don't want to mess with, it's someone who is great at technology. Of course, most hackers do not know how competent their targets are, which is why this kid got his much-deserved comeuppance after his failed attempt at taking over this other guy's video game account. This story is also a reminder to keep your technologically talented friends in your corner, as this guy did. He and his friend were big RuneScape people in the early 2000s, so much so that their successful…

Every afternoon when I got home from school I'd rush through the door, scattering my things on the floor, and pound down the stairs to the basement on a beeline towards the family computer. After five minutes of the dial-up modem doing its thing and another fifteen minutes to load into the game, I had a whole new world at my fingertips. Time was of the essence as every moment I spent in Gielinor was a moment that my mother couldn't spend on the phone talking to her sisters. Due to the obscene l…