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So I remember playing AoS on Starcraft.
I only vaguely remember it, one time I had a zergling, I was upgrading it way more than the standard 3 max, which was the custom of the time for rpg style maps.
Left to Right, not bottom left to top right as was the later standard(possibly started with Aeon of Six Gods in wc3, but maybe not)

Day 1 on warcraft 3, I remember getting on battle.net, and already playing an AoS map, left to right, there was a blademaster hero that someone had lowered the Blue and Green colors to 0, so it was bright red. I don't mean the chaos orc blademaster.
I recognized the map, as a classic starcraft map at the time, it wasn't my favorite in starcraft, and I played more stuff like rise of rome, war of the ring, diplomacy, rp maps, starship troopers, and some rpgs.

Not long ago the origin of Dota/LoL came up in a conversation and I referred to AoS from broodwar, and someone corrected me and said it was before broodwar, in vanilla StarCraft 1, and it kinda made sense to me.
Googling it right now I see claims for 2002, but that looks wrong to me.
In July 2002 I was playing AoS in warcraft, and I remember thinking "ooh someone already made AoS for warcraft", feeling like it was a classic map, and it would be weird if it was only a few months old. That was a long time ago, and I was a child, so a half a year could've seemed like a long time I guess.
I have a lot more memories from other maps, so in a way it makes sense I guess.

Anyone else remember the original AoS, and early maps, could it be older than 2002?