I played EQ2 from literally day 1 until about 4 years into it. One if the things I absolutely loved was the rankings of who was the first lvl 50 and what # was I to reach 50. How many discoveries each toon had plus a multitude of other stats and guild achievements. Do they still do that? I can’t find all the data anymore.
Sort of. A lot of it is tracked via census. You can use EQ2U Leaderboards, or look up characters individual discoveries for example.
I was curious about this myself as well. It makes you quite proud to be the first person in the entire game to discover something.