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I was enough of a geek to scan some of the awesome artwork from the manual (we had a 300dpi scanner!) and print it out and then color it with felt pens. I still have my colored", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 739341376, "item_id": 46208836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208836", "by": "nerdix", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AOL had an amazing warcraft 2 community", "excerpt": "AOL had an amazing warcraft 2 community. There was an online games service in the 90s called Engage and AOL had a partnership with them that allowed AOL users to play multiplayer games through the AOL service. There was a additional charge and it was quite expensive (I believe there was a per minute but my memory is a little fuzzy on the details). There was a very active AOL message board dedicated to Warcraft 2. 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