9 years here too. I think I started following the project at like alpha 2 or something ridiculously early. Remember seeing the very first screenshot where Ryan somehow got a windows dropdown menu in-game and thought that looked exciting as hell (because I was 13 or something). It was when I first found out and got started with .NET (which was pretty new at the time!). I now have a degree in computer science and work as a full-time developer, occasionally with C#. I like to think RunUO is what got me started with programming for real, and that I have Ryan/RunUO to thank for a lot of that.