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I remember a long time ago, in eighth grade, I found the very first Team Rocket website almost solely devoted to fanfiction. It’s still around, found out it celebrated its 4th anniversary. http://come.to/JessieRocket Damn, I was around there that whole entire time. JessieRocket’s site opened up these wonderful doors of internet reading to me, and I spent hours reading fics from her site, and from talented authors I initially found there. Well, one day she got a message board put up. I HAD to go in there and post, post… The message board was open the end of ’99…. I was happy to know I could use just the name “Arcanine” and off I went posting… I was probably the first member that stuck it all the way though. It was my first message board, and Shadowcat’s first too. Tiffany was the other founding sister, a “Birth of Mewtwo” connoisseur. I miss Tiffy ;_;. I was very welcoming to newbies, and was VERY much into that board. Shadowcat was my first internet friend and I just made a whole bunch more ^_^. I soon became known , or maybe it was a self-imposed title, as the “nick-name giver”. Such things were necessary when some people posted known as “I luv james” ^_-. Well, maybe that doesn’t make too much sense because “Shadowkitty” turned out to be longer than her real name… It was quite a girly message board, only two boys ever stuck around. I didn’t want too many of them there though. The first guy on the board was a spammer who started a flame-war between cat and dog pokemon... I never welcomed anyone I thought was a male ^_^*. Heheh. Sgt Giggles was quite cool though, I remember that much. Mushu came a long while later, brought by his sister. JessieRocket barely showed herself there and I think the fist ever role play was about what happened to her during her long disappearances. Well, one day she came on and decided to make Shads and I mods. I barely had to ever do anything except occasionally clear up advertisements just because no one ever fought or anything. The board also inspired me to take an HTML class at the JC. My page was about Seymour the scientist, the nerd who showed up in one pokemon episode XD. It taught me the most important codes I’d ever want to use, link and image ^_^*. Eventually, a time came when I decided “OMG, THIS PLACE NEEDS A NAME.” I think it was PFT who came up with “Rocket Ramble Land”. Maybe Meerey…

One of my favorite memories is being so board that my spammer tendencies took over for one topic and I sent around 20 e-mails to my inbox through them. I remember Shads saying later that she read all of them XD. I also remember Tiffany’s story about the time she chased the mailman across the street, waiting for her Birth of Mewtwo to come in XD. She later sent me a tape of it… The roleplays mildly amused me, I didn’t participate much in them, or the kitties. ANYA’S SITE WITH BOB THE CUBONE. Apparently Shads got pregnant with someone and had kittens all the members could adopt. The quizzes about ourselves were also fun! Well, one day coolboard decided to shut down -_-. I decided to bring it on myself to relocate to ezboard. It was unfavorable to some, but just about everyone made it over. The board went into decline after that and most barely came. I said I’d be the last founding sister ever to leave, and I guess I took it upon myself. There was some protestation to my closing it, mainly from Windie, but I think most understood. It also came from selfish reasons, I didn’t want to keep it up because I kept visiting it while no one wanted to talk anymore. I had started enjoying THRQ a bit and found out, that yes, I was paying more attention to it than ramble land. Out of everybody, now I keep in semi-contact with Windie and Dyani, thorough LJ ^_^*. It’s so neat how Windie and Arti met in real life. Waaw… I wish I could meet internet friends. Of course, it doesn’t help that half the ramble land members live in England, hehe.
Sometimes, I miss it very much, like now. But that part of my life is gone and I can’t really change it now. I think I’m doing this because I can’t seem to remember enough about it right now… Not as much as I like to anyway. Back then, at least I fit in somewhere. I seem to be a little lost duckling ^_^*. I never really fit in very well with the TRHQ message board folks, and I started visiting chat regularly for the first time only recently, now I don’t really anymore >_<. I know I’m going to leave sometime, sometime… but I don’t know when or how. And I don’t know what will become of me. I never took it upon myself to learn how to draw, and if you don’t know how to draw, YOU’RE A LOST SOUL IN THE ANAIM WURLD. Well, I did make new friends on AIM ^_^*. How interesting. I’m just wondering how long I can keep them.