There was a time when Age of Empires, StarCraft, UO, EverQuest, and Counter-Strike were so popular that many high school students skipped class to stay in internet cafes. My high school's solution was to build an internet cafe at school, managed by students, so teachers could always know where to find their students. 😆

This sounds like a lot of fun. I grew up right when this stuff hadn’t come out yet — in a small town. Gaming was an extremely rare and weird hobby it was AOL-hosted, MUD/text-based games. Martin Shkreli played a Ranger (lol) and I OFC was an Evil Mage Then came the early day of EverQuest - I played with a Gateway something or other. Ahh, memories