WoW Emulation History

[rajan]

Since this topic often comes up around the web as well as within the MaNGOS community, I have collected some links which more or less show the full history of WoW emu from the very early days. I am including the actual links here, and in the case of one Russian link, I will include the actual link and the translated link. This does not include all modern WoW emu history, only the very beginning. (Thanks to Goudy on Discord for reminding me of the WoWEmulationBeta pdf.)

 

Ancient History from gotwow (now dead). 14+ pages of WoW emu development & history:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090511050213/http://www.gotwow.ic.cz/ancient-history/

 

.pdf detailing WoW emu development, projects, teams, and drama:

WoWEmulationBeta.pdf

 

Russian site also detailing WoW emu history:

http://wowscript.narod.ru/wowemuhistory.html
 

Translated version of the Russian page:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwowscript.narod.ru%2Fwowemuhistory.html&edit-text=&act=url

 

Merge history graph showing some early development core adoption: