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The 2007 build of RuneScape, still updated by player vote and still fully playable in a browser tab you should not have open.
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Old School RuneScape sits in RPG Grinds under Play, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Browser role-playing games with real progression systems. These are the ones that quietly become a hobby rather than a distraction.
Yes. Old School RuneScape is free to use, though it asks you to sign up.
Yes. Old School RuneScape asks you to create an account before you get far.
Not well. We file Old School RuneScape as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
The RPG with the player removed: choose a race, then watch the bars fill for years. Still the sharpest joke about the genre.
Text-based crime MMO running since 2004, where the market, the gyms and the prison are all operated by other extremely committed players.
Modern MUD platform with a proper browser client: play the hosted worlds, or build one yourself without touching a server.
Browser MMO that has shipped a story release nearly every week since 2008 and looks exactly as Flash-era as you remember.
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.
Browses the archives through emulated period browsers, so an old page renders the way it did rather than the way Chrome guesses.
An encyclopedia of the world's writing systems, including the invented, the extinct and the barely attested.
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