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.