Early Web 2.0 Multiplayer Games
The early 2000s were the golden age of Persistent Browser-Based Games (PBBGs). Most were built using PHP and MySQL, relying on a tick-based system where the game state updated every hour (or day), and players interacted through static HTML tables, forms, and blue-on-black CSS themes. Crazy to think about, but most of these games… still are active to this day. Sci-Fi This was a massive genre because the “text-only” nature made it feel like you were looking at a computer console on a starship. ...