Back when AOL was my internet provider, the first game I got seriously hooked on was a MUD called Gemstone III. I check back in on it every once in awhile, and

Back when AOL was my internet provider, the first game I got seriously hooked on was a MUD called Gemstone III. I check back in on it every once in awhile, and people are still paying to play it, new content is being released, etc. I believe it's been one continuous world, so all the old OP equipment and magic items are still out there being hoarded. I wonder about the original developers who were working on it in the 80s. Did they have any idea that people would still be inhabiting the worlds they built almost 40 years later?