I would like to thank this forum because...

[zidane11]

Zelda is what brought me to otaku all those years ago. I bought my first gameboy along with zelda. I was on ign.com and out of this big list of places with zelda info I came here. I asked questions and then I found my self to like this place. I've come here ever since the version one boards. This is my most favorite site ever. Thanx adam and everyone else on otaku!!!

By the way, what ever happened to Blanks777? I know james is here now and I was wondering if anyone knew if they were the same person or not.

How did you guys find otaku?


[color=indigo]I got your message and moved this thread to Otaku Lounge. And don't worry about it, it wasn't any trouble at all. - Desbreko[/color]

[G/S/B Master]

Well half of this should be in the Otaku lounge like 75% of it. But anyways i got to otaku when i was seaching for pokemon codes and cheats. On yahoo,and otaku appeared on the seach screen so i checked it then signed up for the messege board. At that time the IM_GENGAR the spammer was on it.

[James]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by zidane11 [/i]
[B]

By the way, what ever happened to Blanks777? I know james is here now and I was wondering if anyone knew if they were the same person or not.

How did you guys find otaku?


[color=indigo]I got your message and moved this thread to Otaku Lounge. And don't worry about it, it wasn't any trouble at all. - Desbreko[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=royalblue]Blanks777 is Justin (not [i]our[/i] Justin though ;)).

Just Blessing joined theOtaku early through its life -- in late 1999. At that point in time, he was running Absolute Sega (his site, AbsoluteSega.com, had merged with theOtaku).

At the very same time, I had applied to write for AbsoluteSega.com. When I contacted Justin, he informed me that AS was moving to theOtaku.com. So naturally, I decided to write for theOtaku.com's Absolute Sega section.

But only about a month after that section launch, Justin dumped it and went for an Xbox section (which I wrote for, for a while).

A few months later, I opened my own section; Absolute GameCube.

And then, by mid 2001, Justin decided to leave theOtaku.com and start MSOtaku.com -- a fully independent site.

At this point, we had a lack of staff...and we closed down our gaming sections and put theOtaku.com under rennovation.

It remained closed for quite some time, eventually emerging in its current V2 format.

During that time, MSOtaku became CloudChaser: Microsoft. And recently, CloudChaser merged with XenGen to create XenGamers.com.

Justin currently has no projects going.

And I'm still around -- I was responsible for the move to O3Online (including the site's logo and core website) and since early 2001, I have been running OtakuBoards.com while Adam has been running its sister-site, theOtaku.com.

Now of course, Otaku Artist has launched...OtakuBoards is on version 5 and all is running smoothly. :)

Phew...a brief history lesson there, from the staff perspective. Hope that answered some questions. :)[/color]

[Kristoff119]

I came upon theotaku.com when I was looking for stuff about the gba. I went and started off posting stuff in the pokemon forum way back when, in november of 2000.

[Boba Fett]

Well, I heard abouit the boards by word of mouth, specificly by another member, Ben.

I was attracted to the small, but extremely active Star Wars community, and the excellent RPGs.

[Shy]

[color=green]Another history thread!? You would think we would get tired of talking about the past so much... :rolleyes:

I found the boards after visiting theotaku.com's digimon section (this was a year ago, when the otaku didn't have [u]any[/u] content) Something compelled me to join the message boards, and four version numbers later I am still here.[/color]

[Yukazi]

Lets see... [I] Begin Flashback [/I]

I was walking through a food store and saw a book shelf. I had walked up to it and started flipping through them one at a time. Then, being the Pokemon fan that i was, went slower through a book, and a URL caugt my eye: PokeCHEATS.com
Three months later, I had rememberd what the URL was and visited it. I followed a few links and ended up on the message boards. I joined under "cruizr131" on October 28th, 2000. I have been a member ever since. (Believe it or not)

[Guest Zeh]

[COLOR=indigo]needed zelda DX help back in august, 2000.

yep 2 days after august 20th i joined here....

August 22nd, 2000........ i remember everything that went on.... i'm the longest staffer ;) [/COLOR]

[Adam]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cruizr [/i]
[B]Lets see... [I] Begin Flashback [/I]

I was walking through a food store and saw a book shelf. I had walked up to it and started flipping through them one at a time. Then, being the Pokemon fan that i was, went slower through a book, and a URL caugt my eye: PokeCHEATS.com
Three months later, I had rememberd what the URL was and visited it. I followed a few links and ended up on the message boards. I joined under "cruizr131" on October 28th, 2000. I have been a member ever since. (Believe it or not) [/B][/QUOTE]

What?? PokeCHEATS.com was mentioned in a food store book? Why do I never hear about these things!

-Adam

[Guest Zeh]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Adam [/i]
[B]

What?? PokeCHEATS.com was mentioned in a food store book? Why do I never hear about these things!

-Adam [/B][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=indigo]i hope he meant book store ;) other wise it would have to be in the "baked goods" section..... [/COLOR]

[zidane11]

Thanks a lot. That helped clear up a lot of stuff. I like this place now as much as I did on version 1.

[MarkM]

Anyway i was looking for Zelda dx cheats and yahoo's search engine brought me here :)

[zidane11]

It seems like a lot of people found this place while looking for zelda or pokemon cheats. It's a good thing that this sight comes up on the yahoo search engine also.

[gouf]

cloudstrife00 beg me join and all it does is make my blood pressure rise

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Boba Fett [/i]
[B]Well, I heard abouit the boards by word of mouth, specificly by another member, Ben.[/B][/QUOTE]Ben? [i]Ben?[/i] [b]My[/b] Ben?!?! ::cough::

[i][COLOR=green]Another history thread!? You would think we would get tired of talking about the past so much...

I found the boards after visiting theotaku.com's digimon section [b](this was a year ago, when the otaku didn't have any content)[/b] Something compelled me to join the message boards, and four version numbers later I am still here.[/COLOR][/i]

Ditto.

hehe, I actually did a search on Digimon Fanart...and I found Ginny!!! ^_^ Loved her artwork, emailed her back and forth a few times, joined OB, and, as they say....the rest is history.

[Guest]

I was typing in a URL for some DBZ fansubs, but I typed it in wrong, and wound up here.

[bignatedawg]

I found out about Otaku through a member known as Gohan. He had begged me to join, so I did. Gotta say its the best message boards I've ever been to.

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]Well one day I was at Anna's house (hmm..big shocker there...) and she was on here and I looked around and I wanted to join myself, so there ya go. And then I met Piro Munkie and we talked and we got married! WhooHOO! And I was friends with alot of other awesome people, too. And I am a member of Adam's Angels along with BabyGirl and LM. Go ME! :D[/color][/size]

[Battlepoop]

Well, I was on a stroll on the otaku.com(It was about half a year from the last time I went on) when I came across the boards, so I joined.

[zidane11]

Wow, these are some interesting stories. Someone got married (supposedly) and what other website could have brought you here by missplelling? I guess it doesn't matter how you got here as long as you are here.

By the way gouf, I got cloudstrife to join and then he got you to join. I guess it all worked out. More members!

[Roxie Faye]

[QUOTE][I]Originally posted by Shyguy:[/I][B]
[COLOR=green]I found the boards after visiting theotaku.com's digimon section (this was a year ago, when the otaku didn't have [U]any[/U] content) Something compelled me to join the message boards, and four version numbers later I am still here.[/COLOR][/B][/QUOTE]

basically the same for me, only later on. It was around February, 2002(well, DUH) and back around December, I had gotten into a Digimon obseesion(which I am STILL obessed with). I had read a lot of fanfiction, but had not been to ANY digimon sites at all(I didn't even know about Megchan and lelola). I decided to find some nice Digimon websites, and I wound up at TheOtaku. From there, I joined the Boards. I must say, that coming here was the best thing I ever did on the internet.
Oh, and believe it or not(i'm sure you'll all believe this, considering my post quality), this is the third message board i've joined and I've only joined three message boards total. :cross:

[PiroMunkie]

[color=indigo]Crikey . . . ehh.. to make a long story short, Topaz introduced me to this place :) So those who like me here, thank her, and those who don't, well, she's not around to complain to so :p[/color]

[Charles]

How did I join the boards? It wasn't in April, March or November, but during a May that I specifically remember. So sit back and have a bite before it becomes stale. Listen to the White Boy's historical tale.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So I sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. I sat there with Sally. We sat there, we two. And I said, "How I wish we had something to do!" Too wet to go out and too cold to play ball. So we sat in the house. We did nothing at all. So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it. Not one little bit. We played with the computer and that was it.

And then something went BUMP! How that bump made us jump! We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat! And he said to us, "Why do you sit there like that?" "I know it is wet And the sun is not sunny. But we can have Lots of good fun that is funny!" "I know some good sites we could surf," Said the cat. "The otakuboards are my turf," Said the Cat in the Hat. " I will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at all if I do."

Then Sally and I Did not know what to say. Our mother was out of the house for the day. But our fish said, "No! No! Make that cat go away! Tell that Cat in the Hat You do NOT want to join the otakuboards today . He should not be here. He should not be about. He should not be here When your mother is out!" "Now! Now! Have no fear. Have no fear!" said the cat. "The boards are not bad. They bring cheer" Said the Cat in the Hat. "Why, we can have Lots of good fun if you wish and after posting a little you'll forget about this stupid fish.

Avatars and singatures the boards did possess. But before White Boy they were but a mess! No enemy of cats or their health, I ditched Sally and kept the Cat in the Hat for myself. So that is how I joined the boards on that very rainy day. That is why you are reading this whacked out post today. :toothy:

[The Vampire: Ed]

I accidentally found this place while looking for a Taco delivery service. After about an hour of asking people if I could have 3 beef tacos, I realized it wasn't a taco delivery service. But I stuck around anyway.

[Axel--Ignition]

CWB, you are freaky!

Zidane11 was telling me all about the boards before I had the internet. From the first time he told about them, I wanted to join. I got the internet and joined during V3. I then persuaded gouf, scgm, and Sacred Warrior to join. Glad you're back Z11!