User blog comment:VonGlusenburg/Waves of Alt-hist wiki contributors/@comment-7576024-20150116003136

Well, I suppose I shall spin my yarn (though not nearly as great as Crim's tale).

I played Minecraft in multiplayer Historical Roleplaying servers (primarily about the Crusades/Renaissance). There was a big forum community, and we would have a set year in history that we had to go from, so I looked up maps from those time eras and kept getting maps from this wiki!

I was downright irritated because I couldn't find real-life maps of 1630 Europe, but I would instead get maps from TLs, and I sort of grew to dislike the wiki just for that one reason. One day, I decided to read some about it and I decided that map games (esp. PM2) were pretty much like RP games such as eRepublik, which I had also played for some time up until this point.

I never really read any of the great TLs to get started, and mostly hung out on chat with Willster and UT, who at the time were the only users who I could count on being on chat consistently. (My, how the times have changed!) From there, played other map games and started a couple TLs which never took off.