GaiaOnline was where I have my fondest memories. I think I discovered it around 2004, 2005? I was in middle school at the time and was at that weird stage where I was discovering a lot new things in terms of interests. Anime just happened to be one and Gaia was a forum where a lot of anime fans gathered. What really drew me in was that it was the first active web community that I was a part of. A lot of people were nice and many were around the same age as me. It also helped that they had customizable avatars with clothing and such that you could buy on their marketplace. It was cool mix of an online RPG and a forum. And I got sucked right in.
I was a member until 2008 or so. It was beginning to decline, and as I was getting older my interests also changed. I realized I needed to be doing more extracurricular activities, than sitting on my desktop bumping my quest thread for 100 pages. All in all, I definitely do not regret being attached to that site for so long. I've met a lot of great people from there, and ended up becoming Facebook friends with some. I do miss it from time to time, especially the Roleplaying forum they had, but I'm glad I've moved on.
Yeah, the Roleplayong forum was great and I remember spending entire nights posting there. Gaia also introduced me to forum word games like 5 words each, rate above, etc..
GaiaOnline was where I have my fondest memories. I think I discovered it around 2004, 2005? I was in middle school at the time and was at that weird stage where I was discovering a lot new things in terms of interests. Anime just happened to be one and Gaia was a forum where a lot of anime fans gathered. What really drew me in was that it was the first active web community that I was a part of. A lot of people were nice and many were around the same age as me. It also helped that they had customizable avatars with clothing and such that you could buy on their marketplace. It was cool mix of an online RPG and a forum. And I got sucked right in.
I was a member until 2008 or so. It was beginning to decline, and as I was getting older my interests also changed. I realized I needed to be doing more extracurricular activities, than sitting on my desktop bumping my quest thread for 100 pages. All in all, I definitely do not regret being attached to that site for so long. I've met a lot of great people from there, and ended up becoming Facebook friends with some. I do miss it from time to time, especially the Roleplaying forum they had, but I'm glad I've moved on.
Yeah, the Roleplayong forum was great and I remember spending entire nights posting there. Gaia also introduced me to forum word games like 5 words each, rate above, etc..