stackyFACTSLong before tech billionaires tried to sell us virtual reality meetings, early 2000s MMOs had functioning digital economies, virtual real estate, and complex political systems. Those blocky, pioneering servers laid every foundational rule for the digital worlds we inhabit today.
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