u/Felix_inkwell

Hello all. There is a program known as mudclient14.jar which is RuneScapes oldest known named client version. Dating to mid January 2001, a few weeks after its original release. Its name is known via obscure archive.org pulls for jagex's original website. The earliest found mudclient is mudclient39.jat which dates to May 2001.

The RuneScape archive team currently has a $2,000.00 bounty on all mudclient.jars that are older than mudclient39.jar

They do not exist on archive.org, and would have to be sourced through other means other than webscraping. This file was known to be retained within Internet Explorers cache. These files only would still exist if the user loaded the page betqeen the dates of January to May 2001.