Now a player named Wi is still the subject of conversation on at least two major online discussion forms over 20 years later.

From what I've read, it introduced quirkiness and a bunch of unintentional community involvement, with likely much hilarity.

The goal of playing a game is to have fun.

Dealing with frustration can also be fun, in fact the Dark Souls series recognized this brilliantly.

This bug, while undoubtedly frustrating, sounds like it was also a lot of fun for a lot of folks.