RS Roots

[Matt Slater]

I remember it like it was yesterday. A young boy at a Boys & Girls Club of America, couldn't be older then 10 or 11.

There was a computer room, and coming from a financially strickened family with no computer or internet at the time, I used the internet there. While I had initially made an account on the Official Runescape site, I often found myself loading and playing it on Miniclip.com, as for some reason(whether made up in my young, dumb head or not) would load better, and have better connection.

It also didn't help I played a Robot battling game on the same Miniclip website.

I fell in love with Runescape, looking back now it was truly magical and I really did feel it was larger then life. Walking from Lumbridge Castle to Varrock Square the long way was a legit fucking journey back then, a long one. Meeting new friends a long the way(remember taxi-ing to Varrock and people would try and get you stuck at the fence so you couldn't used them as taxi?)

Anyway, yeah, it just had a different feel then. But that had to be the most golden, almost innocent times in Runescape and my time here.

Now I know the world inside out and it feels so small.

I'd love to go back in time to a younger me, and a younger then and relive every second of it.