For Francophones (who are my age, now in their late 20s), I’d say it was mainly these 2 big ones :
I was crazy about [Chapatiz](https://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/wb/c/h/chapatiz-web-011.jpg) around 2006. There was also “Chapatiz UK” at one point for English speakers but I don’t think it lasted.
[BlaBlaLand](https://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/0/09/Tchat-Blablaland_V1.png) was also quite popular.
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Around 2010 I played Habbo Hotel. I don’t really know how popular it was in Germany, not widely known I assume. I never saw anyone talking about it.
In my group of friends, Runescape and Lineage 2.
It’s probably not very similair, but we did mostly hang out in the games, maybe chop some wood and kill some monsters here and there.
Around 2005 (±2 years).
As someone born in ’97: Club Penguin and Habbo were both played. Also Runescape and, depending on whether you meant browser games or online games, WoW and CS. I feel like AdventureQuest deserves a mention even though it isn’t really multiplayer.
Tibia, Metin2, Mu Online, Lineage 2. And of course the king of online shooters for two decades now: Counter-Strike.
Sigh, none. Affordable, fast-ish internet only became a thing when I was almost 30.
Since you mention habbo and club penguin, I guess you mean browser games. Then I’d say Ogame, at least in my circle
Club Penguin was extremely popular here in Spain, I even had the premium membership 🙂
In the mid-00’s, we played Runescape, Galaxy wars, then O-Game, I think one called Inselkampf too.
There weren’t so many games, the Internet was still fresh to most people.