You are embarrassingly misinformed.
The way I see it Ultima Online lead off, Everquest took it up a notch, and World of Warcraft finished it. Lineage is the only game I feel misinformed on. I hadn't previously heard of its success.
Sure. If you're only counting games that start with A, B and C.
Your list there consists of 12 MMORPG's and some of them are ho-hum so don't get too high and mighty there FlameChicklette.