The story of no one gave a sh*t.
I'm kidding, I got a real good one.
Ok, so when I joined in 2003, I basically screwed around with my friends and never really played it (Levelgrinding like everyone else) and the worst part of that all was everyone glithcing and duping items. I wasn't affected - I listed to a back then Pmod friend I had. Then one of my friends in RL got banned for taking duped items. That made me pissed and I tried filing reports to get him unbanned. That didn't work, so I left Runescape for a year or so. That was when I was 10.
When 04-05 rolled around (When Runescape 2, now which is Today's Runescape came out) I decided to log back in and give it a go. My best friend, my good old friend, stole my accounht. It wasn't "OH NOEZ, HE HACKED ME!!!" like it is today,I was a dumbass and told him my password. He had been playing on it since after he got banned and I quit. I recovered it (by beating his then prebubescant friend and started playing again. I soon found out he made a small fortune on this account (500k-1m) and it had memebers. Cool. Then it got banned. Why? Well, turns out that his "Small fortune" he had on my account was made from botting. I quickly sent a report with that he had stolen my account, botted on it and that it should be given back. They agreed, but they reset the account. Stats, Money and Membership. Wasn't too pissed. I was just happy to have nmy account back.
Then, for the next few years, I started to level up quickly, Ranged becoming my main trump card (Rune Knives > over half the pure community) and I trained on Green Dragons 'til about 70 or so. Then Jagex shagged free trade and the wilderness. You guys know what happned there.
I'll add more later, just felt I'd add a little bit here and there.
Oh, and Shane? I got a question : Why do you hate the New updates for Runescape so far? I think they're pretty beastly.