Some of us fell in love with eq, because we used to dream that someday, computers would be powerful enough to run a "DM Simulator" where the computer was the dungeon master, and it could involve every stat and calculation you would want, AND it would be graphical, not just text based. And then eq came out, and it was wow, it finally happened.
Without D&D, everquest never happens.
And one could argue, without Tolkien, there never would have been D&D.
Geek history is deep, and at the roots of more things that people take for granted today than many realize. The internet was invented, defined, and initially populated by the military.... and D&D enthusiasts and Monty Python fans who could code.
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