The main ones I played as a kid were Club Penguin, Roblox (if you can call either an MMO), Toontown Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online (I only remember the ship combat and fighting alligators in a bog), Spiral Knights (no part of it is especially great but it's got a fun visual style), and Realm of the Mad God, each getting a year if not more of my childhood. Then there was Kingdom of Loathing, another dubiously-MMO title, which I heard about from PCG, immediately became obsessed with, and it butterfly-effect style caused me to meet almost all of my friends nowadays.
I also spent a week or so trying to get into Wizard101, Wurm Online, Fusionfall (those 3D models haunt me), Maplestory (some sick part of me thinks I should go back, even though I know it's not the same), Mabinogi, and... I think Battle of the Immortals and Ragnarok Online? Maplestory I heard about from a dude at the local card shop, Mabinogi and Battle of the Immortals I mostly stumbled upon while looking for free MMOs, because Lucky Star had me convinced the cool thing to do was stay up all night playing MMOs. I can't actually remember if I played RO, I just know I signed up for a random MMO that looked a lot like it after seeing a /jp/ post about it and then totally forgot the name.
Then there's a bunch I spent maybe a couple of days if not hours poking at before forgetting about, such as LEGO Universe (probably heard about it from PCG), Rusty Hearts, Glitch, Dream of Mirror Online (for a blog post I was writing at the time), Lord of the Rings Online, Star Trek Online (Steam still gives me suggestions based on my time in STO), and Guild Wars (all three got about 2 hours at the behest of a friend.)
Since then I've put serious time into OSRS (sometimes you just want to watch numbers go up), Worlds Chat (mostly for research), Furcadia (also for research), and MapleStory 2 (some friends and I loved the game until the endgame sucked and the game got totally shut down, and also some of the moderation was dubious.)
Oh, and of course then there's the best MMO ever produced: FFXIV.
...that list is a lot longer than I would have guessed it would be.
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