Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

A fascinating read about the technology stack that drove the original Ultima Online servers.

Maybe gives you an idea of what goes on behind the scenes for something like Nostalrius, the next time there's a server crash and "rollback"!

http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-techn ... rs?share=1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818996

-Shiraz

Whilst I didn't understand most of that, I enjoy reading about the patchwork days of early gaming. It's refreshing how unconstrained so much of it was.