I'm always amazed to see stuff like this. Even though I had played starting in Dec. of 99, their was so much stuff I had never got to experience or see even in the older zones. To the day I finally quit out of the three vox raids I went on I don't think I ever got to see her in the flesh (I was a cleric) and I can't remember if any of those raids were even successful. Never finished my cleric epic. Never got to experience any of the early plane gods.
I thought about hopping on the combine server again for shits and giggles but the only computer I have working slows to a crawl even with everything turned off. Even if I could, i'd probably just lose interest again since I'd never get back the feeling of playing my first MMORPG.
Thanks for this treasure of nostalgia though
Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends. Cortana