Looks like here. The earliest surviving post that I made on RPGClassics.com is listed as <A HREF=“http://web.archive.org/web/19990429170053/http://www.rpgclassics.com/”>April 26th, 1999</A>, over five years ago. Of course, that was after I’d finished the DW3 shrine, and picked up the FFVI shrine from someone else, but before the great deletion in which I lost the DW3 shrine, and whatever else I’d done by that point.
Amazing what happens in five years.
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Ironic note about that post; I didn’t know Jim too well then, so I was just conveying a message, but who’d have known that he’d a) “inherit” this website, and b) get “overthrown” from this site. Funny, huh? }|>
Things have changed quite a bit in just the 3 years or so I’ve been hanging out here, much more since that far back. Overall I’d say it’s a better place than it was back then.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/twistedrpg/images/hero/rirse.gif”> Ugh, don’t mention Shadow of Death…that guy write a code to save his life. Anyway, I didn’t really start visiting RPGC until 2000 when following Rast’s post at RPG Engine to look at the newest Macc HQ (which he was in). And the rest…is history.
I can’t see it there, but I remember liking the RPGC design that had the black (or at least really dark) background, mainly because all the staff’s personalized name images/icons looked really frikkin’ good on it. Plus, it was probably the first design of the site I saw, and first impressions tend to stick.
It’s funny seeing that most everybody that posted there is still here - except for Dais and Geo, who stop by every so often. And Jim for obvious reasons.
I cna tell that I had been at RPGC for awhile by my messages and my name. When I first came to RPGC I kept changing names, but one fo my more common ones was “RPGames Webmaster.” It was a site I made. It had a promise, but I didn’t have the time to keep it up. I had several shrien quality sections though (mostly FFs that were already taken). I don’t even know where the page was located anymore. I think I came here either in 96 or 97, it’s been awhile. Once Rast left though, I sopped coming frequently because I was working at Rast’s other site (RPG Maker) making one of the sections for one of the RPG Makers.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/twistedrpg/images/hero/rirse.gif”> Dunno how my codes can be bad, they are all copied from other shrines, but meh. Anyway, I decided to check the archives for the “sister” of RPGC, Mysidia. This is the oldest archive with me in it (there is a 1999 update I didn’t check out), so enjoy and laugh at my even worst grammar at the time.
Not like you have the best code ever.