When did you start using forums?

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

The first forum I ever was active on was one I co-owned with Paul of pokejungle! We had a few iterations of it and I made a lot of friends there. I have no idea what year that was though. xD I joined PE2K shortly after that, in 2005 when I was 15.

[Bulbasaur]

The first forum I ever was active on was one I co-owned with Paul of pokejungle! We had a few iterations of it and I made a lot of friends there. I have no idea what year that was though. xD I joined PE2K shortly after that, in 2005 when I was 15.

Pokejungle sounds familiar... how long did it last?

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Pokejungle sounds familiar... how long did it last?

Pokejungle is still going strong as a website and is actually really popular now because Paul went to live in Japan so he gets all the latest news!

The forum was called Indigo Plateau but was really small, then switched to being called Mt. Moon for years. And just recently Paul launched a brand new forum. :)

[Bulbasaur]

Pokejungle is still going strong as a website and is actually really popular now because Paul went to live in Japan so he gets all the latest news!

The forum was called Indigo Plateau but was really small, then switched to being called Mt. Moon for years. And just recently Paul launched a brand new forum. :)

Oh that's actually pretty cool! :D

[Chakramaster]

Oh boy, brings back the memories. Both very good AND the very bad xD

My first ever forum was GT (GameTrailers). While I made some awesome friends there. it came with its fair share of bad memories too. GT ended up running itself into a brick wall back in 2012 which was like a giant middle finger to all it's loyal user base. So about 80% of the big everyday users left after the forum overhaul (which everyone warned them would happen if they took certain things out...the staff just didn't care).

So after the big switch my friends and I lost our main hub to have our own section for our stuff and talk so we made our own small forum. That lasted about 3 years and never got anyone new to join the site either. So oh well.

Then one day bored on a trip to New Mexico. Using my phone I google search something Pikachu related (I can't remember what). I stumbled across the Pikachu Survivor Game back on PE2K. I was so intrigued that, even though it had happened a year prior to reading it. I read EVERY. SINGLE. POST from it. I LOVED IT! So I just had to get in on that action. I tried joining, but the site had been locked for new users joining unless you contacted an administrator. I looked around to see what was up and found the thread detailing the site merging here with PXR. Now I'm here with PXR! Got to participate in the craziness that is PSG (and won on my second attempt, almost won on my first attempt too!). I'm stuck with you all now FOREEEEEEEVER AND EEEEEEEEEEEVERRRRRRRRR!

[Noblejanobii]

Well, I started playing Pokemon Tower Defense, went to the wiki to get some help with a level, on the wiki I found a link to Pokefarm. I started using the forums there, but wasn't too active. I found a link to Fusemon.org, where I met a group of people and was introduced to RPing, and that's where my forum use really started. Fusemon died shortly after, but we kept the group together. I don't know exactly when it was that all of this started, but the new site for our small group was made in late May, 2013, so I was 15.

May 30, 2013 to be exact, AWA.

Though fusemon itself was made May 30, 2011.

I started out actually on a shoutbox that gave me the origin of my username about... 6 years ago, but I don't really consider that a forum for obvious reasons. The shoutbox became a really toxic environment so I kind of went dormant on the internet for a while and then eighth grade rolled around. I started hitting some really hard times so I retreated to the Internet again and joined Pokefarm. I joined the forums there and quickly learned how to short hand roleplay. That's actually where Sloane Jackson got her debut, as a Gardevoir Gijinka. Then I transferred over to Fusemon on the day it opened. I was it's second official user, and I joined the forums hoping for a community much like Pokefarm's. What I got was even better, a group of life long friends. Fusemon lasted two years before it was supposed to shut down, but then it magically got renewed. Nevertheless, our little group moved onto our own private site and we were more active there than on Fusemon for *shivers* reasons. Fusemon officially shut down on May 30, 2014. From there I didn't really branch out again until I decided to join here.