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The original was posted on /r/wow by /u/kanglives on 2026-08-10 02:16:46+00:00.

Hi there. Forgive me, I'm a bit of an old timer and I haven't played nor kept up with World Of Warcaft in 20 years. But I played for a number of years back in the day.. from it's inception to around 2006 or 07. I still remember my characters name but I don't remember the server.. I was able to get in to what I believed is the battlenet account I used from that time but it doesn't show WoW in my "games". Though I did look at old emails from that time and I have emails from blizzard from that account but none of the emails give me much info.

I am a parent now, a husband, I'm finally getting some free time and I'm playing games with my kid.. who's a teen and it's a gamer and I was thinking about all the great memories I had playing WoW and wondered if it was possible to jump back in and use my old character again. Probably a total long shot but I figured this would be the best place to ask. ✌🏻

Any suggestions? Or is it just so long gone that my best shot would just be to start fresh on classic and forget the old account.

Thanks in advance!