Yeah - I ran a big Minecraft server at the time... the thing
   grew to 96gigs (it was mostly a creative server - ppl building
   thousands and thousands of structures on it - I had it setup in
   giant plots) - but i had to pull a "dad from the Lego Movie"
   move and Crazy Glue the whole thing because it was killing my
   laptop's hard drive.

   They still ask me to turn it back on and when I get a new
   computer I will. Or... someday I'll chop out their creations and
   get them to them somehow - maybe if I get a hold of a 3D printer
   and track them down in a few years. 27,000 unique visitors over
   2 years... still blows my mind.   ah shit, you beat me by a
   year. I saw Minecraft when it came out and said, NO NO NO NO NO
   NO NO NO NO YOU'RE GONNA GET HOOKED ON THIS NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
   NO NO NO

   and then... my nephew wanted me to start a server. I was like..
   fuck, I'm gonna get hooked I'm gonna get hooked I'm gonna get
   hooked.

   And I got hooked.   I suck at building - actually the whole
   thing, except mining. Love mining. But I loved running a server
   and all the technical stuff - hooking the chat system into IRC
   and letting people text each other from the game, having it feed
   into a website... fun stuff.