What's the first MMO you ever played and what year?

[Symptom]

I started playing MMO's in 1997 with Ultima Online. Played it for over 10 years. Started playing WoW in 2004. Went back in forth from UO to WoW.

[Levoo]

Bitefight if browser games count, but Knight Online was the first real MMO experience I had. Played many games, at some point 4Story got released. Gameplay of it kind of reminded me what I saw watching WoW videos so it made me yearn for it more and at the end find out private servers are a thing and how to connect to them. Turns out it was piss easy to experience the real thing.

[Mitzen]

Runescape 2

[Shiemita]

I started playing an Argentinian MMORPG called Argentum Online in 2008; it was a 2D game... quite popular in my country at that time.

[Seshollowaterboy]

Vanilla WoW at launch. Wow, some of you guys are making me feel young again.