It was a common occurrence for our teachers to spend the first part of a class lecturing before giving the rest of their allotted time for doing our own work, studying, or whatever we felt like doing. My school had a computer in every room, all connected to a central server – and that server had Age of Empires 2 installed. The Dot Com Bubble was still in full swing, but the internet hadn’t quite penetrated to the depths of my tucked away village.
I grew up in a very tiny place and when I was in middle school the internet was still a burgeoning thing. To be perfectly blunt, I haven’t given a thought to Age of Empires since the second game was fresh out of the gate.
