Back in my day warrior was the tank.
DOA took a long time.
HA was full of real teams.
GVG was a career, playing 6-8 hours of GVG a day to maintain top 40 position with over 10,000 guilds active.
Playing monk was a guarantee of a spot everywhere you went.
Fire Island was like 'OMG'.
SF was for decent players only and took a long time to clear for just the outside chance of a green drop.
Parties would form to farm greens.
Ettins were my main source of income when they used to drop gold runes. Not many people knew about it as we didn't talk about it!
US and EU servers had separate NPCs for goods and you could transfer between them bringing a pile of ectos and shards to play the markets.
Ultimate status symbol was a q8 fellblade or chaos axe.
55 monk ..ahh, the memories.
Doing things was sometimes hard.
SC (or spoiled completely as I call it) wasn't a thing.
UW full clearance took a very long time.
FoW burning forest bit was usually left until last as most likely place to wipe.