Earth & Beyond.

I applied to beta. Got in on that last month or so. I was instantly addicted. Jenquai Explorer. Loved it. So sad when it was canceled.

Ultima Online, pre The 2nd Age. I think I was 7 at the time, and got hooked in Elementary School by my networking teacher. Ahh, rampant griefing. I loved getting my hard-won ore stolen by some 20 something who needed to find meaning in their life through the misfortunes of others.

We need more MMOs like that.

Erm... Jedi Knight?

MMO-wise, then Dark Age of Camelot. I actually got into MUDs after MMOs, amusingly enough.

Ultima Online, best game of all-time. It was towards the end of its life in the mainstream market...I think I was in my late teens. Many nights were spent, yes...getting my ore stolen like dualhammers...but DANG was it fun to kick the crap out of them when I became strong enough! Can't wait for Darkfall Online...hopefully bring back that hardcore PVP and player freedom that todays MMOs desperately need.

The original Diablo. Man that was a great game...except dying and having your stuff spew all over the place in the middle of Hellspawn on level 4 of hell. O.o

But what can beat the heady feeling of hearing your teammates screaming "I"M IN HERE, YOU MORON! KNOCK OFF THE CHAIN LIGHTNING AND FIREBALL!" and then hearing the death scream. :)

Anarchy online, just before i found Diablo2 =[] then AC2 untill it got shut down

Aardwolf MUD

Discworld MUD
Amazing amount of gameplay you could fit in on the 15 min breaks between classes :)

Diablo, horrible computer and shitty connection then but still loved it. only bad thing was the amount of item duping and faked items.

First online game ever.. was Aliens Versus Predator 2
First online MUD... was I think called Dungeon or something similar, was a long time ago
First MMORPG... Ultima Online briefly..wasnt really doable via dial up back then, later I tried MMORPG's again with RF online (a pretty but souless game)

Have played many many others since though :)

Starcraft really was my first online game playing on a dial-up woot.

runescape. if that doesn't count, WoW. I was never big with online.

LewsTherin:
runescape. if that doesn't count, WoW. I was never big with online.

Unfortunately, we obviously have some similarities.