On the first day of release there was a massive blob of little level one, two and three dwarves attempting to hop the boat out of Butcherblock. When the boat was in sight, someone aggrod the aquagoblin wizard. Half the crowd was slaughtered before the boat left BB. Then the boat lagged in OOT dropping another bunch of people overboard where they aggrod something. Whatever it was then proceeded to fly through the air (pretty sure it was a shark) devastating the helpless dwarves stuck on the boat, while others jumped off in an attempt to save themselves. When the boat zoned into EFP I hopped off the boat happy to get onto dry land but missed the docks. Spent the next 20 seconds trying to figure out how to swim up to the top. "You are now entering Butcherblock Mountains."

watching some leet guild train all of mistmoore to zoneline over and over again and aoe it down trying to build up faction

stood by them and watched in awe for hours then a troll shammy walked up and opened trade with me and gave me circlet of shadows on my sk...best item...ever... for sk but i refused to right click it because they just finished putting mod rods on the ground and all the noobs that picked those up and clicked them died, so i was scared for about 3 weeks till finally i decided to click it and went invis

As a struggling druid noob I had barely made lvl 15 after a month of hard core play.

then in joined a guild and a lvl 50 Druid of the guild took me to Unrest (didn't even know it existed or where it was) the whole trip, with levitate, wolf form, and the following session of powerlevelling in Unrest will remain in my memory forever.. Jack O 'Lantern's still are one of my favorites mobs.

I made a Barbarian warrior when I was like 14-15 years old.

Needless to say, Everfrost is not the friendliest noob zone. I still remember 2 high level barbarians hanging around the ramp leading into halas, they gave me some kind of weapon I have NO IDEA what it was or anything, can't recall. They told me about online maps or something and that I should head to East Commonlands for sick groups and mad experience.

I remember getting to the tunnel leading to blackburrow and not being able to even zone in to BB because I could see nothing at all, as in my screen may as well have been off. I didn't know a thing about gamma which is probably what my problem was, but I had to retreat to halas which was terrible in itself to buy a torch so I could make it to BB. That blew my mind and I remember just not being able to believe that kind of depth from a game. I was SOO hooked at this point, and this was like my 1st or 2nd session.

My run to EC at level 9-10 was a hell of a trip, I don't remember much except the karanas and kithikor, but it took me at least 2-3 hours. And that's when it happened. I got in an orc group in EC and grouped with a druid. Then I rerolled druid and ran him to EC.

Seems peoples best experiences was before online resources....

My very first character, a ranger. I didn't know anyone in the game or anything about the game. I remember finding the fletching merchant in Kelethin and making my first bow and a few stacks of arrows, using up every copper I had saved up over a bunch of levels.

I was ready to take over Crushbone!

Then I realized that archery was not a viable primary attack and that I should have spend that money on the fine steel weapons that were being auctioned.

I then rolled a chanter which became my main character from then on. (Little did I know that playing an enchanter when knowing nothing about the game made playing a DPS ranger look like easy mode).

Still I must of spent days preparing and it was a ton of fun.

I also remember finding Butcherblock for the first time, thinking to myself: "There's even more to this game???"

This was followed shortly by accidentally entering Lesser Faydark thinking I was entering Butcherblock at night and being a tad bit confused. I should have lost my corpse forever that day, had it not been for a friendly upper level player dragging my body to the zoneline for me and warning me not to come back for a few levels.

On rallos zek starting out, i was told by my guild leader i could make some money by selling stuff she had and making a cut on each sale.

Get 6 bags of gear from guild leader. Check.

Get a mule up to level 5. Check.

Hop into bed after a night of leveling on my main, to sell gear on my mule in Gfay. Check.

Fall asleep in bed and push toon off the platform with 6 bags of gear that rot under 30mins because youre not lvl 6 yet. Check.

Wake up naked at bind with inventory empty. Check.

During one day somewhere in 2001, Sony allowed players to be able to control monsters.

I spawn in feerott, and spot another furry spider. It approaches me!

I jump! It jumps in response! I jump again! Hop! Hop! goes the non-verbal language.

And off we go into the feerott night tag-teaming noobs for MAJOR lols.

Wandered around in the dark, fell into a hole, and died.

The never ending trains of Blackburrow.
Being blind without a firebeetle eye! (and pretty much with one)
The endless zone of West Karana, before any map was drawn up.
Alpha loot on bronze?
Druid exchange bankers in Lake Rathe.
Rumours that some dragon could zone after players.