Pre-graphical "MMO":
Tele-Arena (Prostar, Masterpiece MBBS, All That Jazz BBS, Nameless BBS)
Mutants! (Masterpiece MBBS, Nameless BBS)
CircleMUD
MajorMUD (Masterpiece MBBS)
DikuMUD
BaronyMARE (was a world designer)
[not listing turn based BBS games like LORD, BRE, SRE, etc]
Graphical "MMO":
The Shadow of Yserbius (Sierra Network/Prodigy)
The Realm Online (Sierra Network/Prodigy)
Ultima Online
EverQuest
Asheron's Call
Dark Age of Camelot
Asheron's Call 2
World of Warcraft
Planetside
Ragnarok Online
Anarchy Online
EVE
Neocron
Final Fantasy XI
Jumpgate
Lineage 2
Tabula Rasa
Vanguard
Age of Conan
Warhammer Online
Star Trek Online
And some other crap like Runescape that I logged into, played for maybe a half hour and never went back. Same goes for "Second Life", though theres a cyberpunk area somewhere in there with tentacle rape, alien embryos (birth-able!) and a bunch of other twisted stuff that I got a laugh out of. All listed MMO, with the exception of Ragnarok Online, Neocron, Tabula Rasa and Planetside I saw end game in. Favorites italicized.
Tele-Arena is the only game that actually sucked me in bad enough to cause work and academic issues. It was just a different calibre of game, with harsh penalties (you die, you lose all of your gear, and if you didn't have a soulstone, you started back at level 1. It wasn't until 5.5f, that you could "Resurrect" yourself for time credits on a BBS subscription) The rest have been to the point where I went weeks to months at a time without logging in and eventually canceling my subscription; except in the case of STO, which I bought myself and friends life time subscriptions to ... what a mistake that was.
Dark Age of Camelot would be a favorite, except for the fact I played a skald, then a shadowzerker (then they nerfed my spec of shadowblade), so I had to go back to the skald. Poopsocking Darkness Falls, and only RVRing to get Darkness Falls back, was really lame.
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