Your Internet History

Remember when you were 11 and you found the amazing contraption that is The Internet? Well, think back to then. What did you do, where did you go? What kind of person were you?

Back when I first found "THE INTERNET," I surfed mainly video game forums until I came upon something called the "Yoshi Community." Here's the deal: Even though I had a "Yoshi Character" (he was pretty badass, but a little emo) I hated almost everyone else within this community. People like me should remember names like "Luna" and "Markior."

I had met this goth girl named Katt who, I thought back then (and I guess I still do), was pretty smart and kept informed in every day governmenty things. She had a mix of Communist and Anarchist ideals. I kinda stuck to her like glue and, not having a mind of my own back then, began to grow into the cynical, angry ******* I am today. She showed me the art world of Jhonen Vasquez through JTHM, and I expanded my search for artists that interested me from there.

It wasn't long until I broke my ties from the Yoshi Community (and from some very good friends) and went on to other stuff. My memory gets wishy washy from there. I remember playing a lot of Warcraft III, RO (from the free trial (and the chaotic last days) to vRO I believe) and went to an IRC called BOTVGH (Battle of the Video Game Heroes) which regularly set up IRC script-based RPG battles with a little bit of roleplay. I also visited DKvine regularly (which is where I met Klobber, Shadowman, RII, Greliz, others of here). I stopped that almost suddenly, and started playing Matrix Online which consumed my life for a large portion.

Now my internet time consists of Matrix Online, RO, Nobody Likes Onions podcast, Zombie Survival on Noxious, Stalker, and F.E.A.R.

Oh, and MFGG.

i played runescape in 3rd grade

this continued for a very long time

It's odd that I have almost no idea, really I probably did about the same as always

Hey Doc Wario! Remember our argument in the olden days about whether I was god or not?

That was awesome.

Pokemon.com was my first visited website lol
Back then OoT Rumor sites were popping up around the net.
I also remember reading Neglected Mario Characters Sprite comics all the time too back then.

when i first discovered the internet, i searched free games and found neopets when i was like 8, now my computer time consists of Halo, F.E.A.R, call of duty, AIM'ing with friends, myspace, facebook, occasionally stopping by MFGG, and listening to itunes.

I don't remember much, but I got into youtube a lot. I mainly searched for Mario bloopers (yikes at times), then I got settled on Super Mario World hacks. I sometimes go to youtube and still watch people play hacks. I even looked on SMWcentral sometimes. Somehow, through all of the SMW hacks, I found Super Mario War. I eventually went and played it, made a bunch of Super Mario World maps, and even a GFX pack. I liked skinning, and eventually, I decided to come here and start spriting more often.
Before all the youtube stuff, I looked around GameFAQS a lot.

I would prefer not to talk too much about my Internet history too much; let's just say I have an astoundingly bad Internet history considering what kind of a member I am on MFGG now. I may have a spotless warn log on here and I may be well-behaved here at least most of the time, but a while back, on other sites... ugh. Let's just say that I'm no stranger to warns/bans from other places, and on at least one site I've probably been at least temporarily one of the most disliked people. In fact, when I joined MFGG I made a determination to prove to myself that I could be a good member of an Internet message board by always following the rules and being as agreeable as I could be. And I hope that from this honest description of my own former problems on the Internet, no one comes to the conclusion that I'm still a loose cannon or a bomb about to go off - I really have changed a lot since those old times, and positively hate the way I used to be. >_> Also, I'm too fond of MFGG to ever deliberately do anything not in its interests.

I guess I may as well make a revelation that I formerly didn't think I would ever dare to make here, that serves as an example of how I used to be on the Internet: Those of you here who also visit the fansite Kirby's Rainbow Resort, and were there around 2004 or so (I know there are at least two of you here, and I already told one of you about this), may remember a very abrasive and rather obnoxious member known as Firesparktornado / FST. ...Yep.

I was actually part of the Bob and George (megaman sprite comics) community, moving onto the Sonic community, finally ending up here 8D

I started out on Gamefaqs and CheatCC at school, looking for codes.

Got a computer at home finally and my cousin sends me the Japanese pokémon red rom and i get hooked on emulation.

i get hooked on the lycos RPG chat. Wizard000 was my name, and warriors were my game.

I find out about Age of empires II and start playing the trial version online.

I find out about Klik and create, and stumble on a site called bowser tech.

Frequented Bob and George more then NFGC for a period of time, i was even a moderator there, though i quit and took a hiatus from the net.

then i came back to NFGC, and then MFGG

and so on and so forth

This post has been edited by Nova on Jul 8 2007, 09:33 PM

I played on Neopets a lot. Other games sites like Flash Player and Newgrounds kept my interest for a long time. Then I started playing Starcraft with buddies and eventually joined video game forums and here I am now.

me too high five

the rest of your post not so much

Who were you on Bob and George?

I might know you.

I wasn't really outspoken, though


I think it was Kirbytehchao.

Wait, do you go to any other forums currently? I think you go to another forum that I'm on too.

haha, I remember back a while ago, I went to Mario Portal, not only did I hate it there, but I was a complete idiot... as you can imagine that didn't help me well. Even before that I only used things like eBay.

I do know you from another forum. Please don't mention here my identity there, though. My reputation sucks horribly on that site (though I stopped going there long ago).

This post has been edited by Grant on Jul 8 2007, 09:48 PM

Yes.

In fact, I remembering the VGF forums a lot and making a few internet friends, almost none of which I still talk to today.

I also remember just getting into the Internet Movie Database and being in AIM chatrooms a lot.

I used to go to ZFGN and some random webcomics...

Alright by me. Eh, I know what it's like trying to get a better reputation after screwing it up, I wouldn't want anyone to know too much about my forum history anywhere else.

oh ok, i was Dragon Reploid.

Back in... iono, maybe '98 or something, I got my Dreamcast hooked up to the Internet. This was my first experience with the Internet, and the only website I went on was Cartoonnetwork.co.uk anyway. It never loaded the games so I eventually stopped trying after a bit.

Anyway in 2000 I got a computer and the Internet. Obviously the first site I wanted to try was Cartoonnetwork again.

There's a huge grey area here but I eventually went on to find KnP. I made crappy little games on it for about half a year then got bored and looked on the Internet for Sonic games (I was kinda into Sonic at the time, me and my friends used to play SA/2 on my dreamcast all the time.)

Eventually I found Sonic and the Search for Knuckles. At the end the "THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH THE GAMES FACTORY" message came up, so I went to the website it advertised and found myself with a never ending trial version of TGF which I eventually went on to buy.

From there I wanted stuff to put in it. I look on the Internet for... something or another and eventually get directed towards SFGHQ. This was probably about early 2002. 6-7 months later I join the forum and almost get banned for posting a Sonic Advance 2 rom (I didn't know it was warez!). I spent some time there doing crap and crap.

About this time one of my friends was spending half his life on my computer. He spent a lot of his time in Visual Basic making crappy little programs with no significance. So eventually I tried using Visual Basic to make a game of my own, getting my friend to help me, and using a site called PSCode or something. I failed but that's not really a story and I just went back to TGF eventually.

Some time in 2003 I believe I start talking to Sonic Project who gives me MMF.rar, the Multimedia Fusion 1.5 warez which I still have to this day. Late 2003 I join here for reasons I can't remember. I think later, some time in early 2004, SP tells me to join and be active and whatever so that I could get a HAPPY HEART BADGE!!!!! because apparently I needed to actually post which sucked. I think this was ABOUT the time when SP became a mod.

I spend lots of time here. Lots of time. Which brings us to this day!!



Not like anyone cares.