Probably my first and brightest memory of classic WoW was that of Absolute Virtue server. Did anyone play on it back in the day?
I also remember spending a lot of gametime on 2.4.3 BattleScape and WoWStorm servers of the project called ScapeGaming. I liked the former one for its massive focus on PvP, which I enjoyed a lot on a NE warrior called Swiftyz (wannabe

Also isn't it wierd that despite offerring great perspectives to players and promising long feature all private servers eventually die out? I wonder if there's still a server up and running that was opened around TBC, per example.