Post by Hobbit-eyes on Nov 30, 2005 4:20:00 GMT -5
Today is a VERY SPECIAL DAY IN THE HISTORY OF RANDOMNESS!
It was this fine day, 365 days ago, when I had too much free time and decided to set up a new message board....
AND HERE IT IS TODAY!!!
The journey to this board as it is today is a long one, littered with muffins and randomness... and since I am feeling nostalgic, I will tell you what it was.
I guess it all started when I was in year nine - four years ago! Bloody hell - when a) Frankie joined our year and b) I first saw LOTR.
The two of them together got me started on fanfiction, where I met loads of LOVELY people. I e-mailed them loads, but wanted some way for us all to communicate.
I also started writing the Official Fanfiction University of Troy, which needed somewhere for students to send in applications and give loving homes to mini-Minotaurs.
I was also on an ego-high with my stories and wanted to share them with the world.... ;D Joke.
Anyway, all that combined with desperately not being bothered to do my homework lead to me, one fine evening, going onto proboards and setting up my own website - which, under some sudden burst of randomness, I decided to call 'Wob-Wobs and Dufflepuds.'
And what a time we've had over the past year... 66 members, 350 topics, and 31,131 posts when I posted this (now will be 31,132), and a whole lot of people fleeing on fast camels.
Memorable, uh, memories include Christmas DOOOOOM, the story where we had to fight the Easter Bunny to save Christmas, the starting of the Padawan scheme (and Becky's and Oni's turn to the Dark Side), the crashing of the General Board which then came back again (officially named 'How the Wofflepuds got their collective groove back' on the poll section) and, more recently, the founding of the Wofflepud university, so that we can all share our random pointless knowledge.
I must thank some people. Frankie, for being the first person to join and posting an insane amount to get it off the ground, and also for being my randomness inspiration... thank you.
Jackie and Kathryn for being my first fanfic internet correspondents, and actually telling me my stories were good... thank you.
Ashley, for being the first spending-every-waking-moment-on-the-site-and-overtaking-most-people-in-a-matter-of-weeks... thank you.
My sister Becky, for bringing some class and intelligence to this place... thank you. (And Gee, most people will be grateful for.)
Thea, who has ALSO posted an insane amount and is already the 5th highest poster and is alarmingly like my mini-me.... thank you.
And finally, to the Wob-Wobs, Dufflepuds and insane people inside my head... thank you, but stop arguing so much.
Now, GO CRAZEE! *throws out Pity Cake, Anakin's mum's Cookies and Lindor*
It was this fine day, 365 days ago, when I had too much free time and decided to set up a new message board....
AND HERE IT IS TODAY!!!
The journey to this board as it is today is a long one, littered with muffins and randomness... and since I am feeling nostalgic, I will tell you what it was.
I guess it all started when I was in year nine - four years ago! Bloody hell - when a) Frankie joined our year and b) I first saw LOTR.
The two of them together got me started on fanfiction, where I met loads of LOVELY people. I e-mailed them loads, but wanted some way for us all to communicate.
I also started writing the Official Fanfiction University of Troy, which needed somewhere for students to send in applications and give loving homes to mini-Minotaurs.
I was also on an ego-high with my stories and wanted to share them with the world.... ;D Joke.
Anyway, all that combined with desperately not being bothered to do my homework lead to me, one fine evening, going onto proboards and setting up my own website - which, under some sudden burst of randomness, I decided to call 'Wob-Wobs and Dufflepuds.'
And what a time we've had over the past year... 66 members, 350 topics, and 31,131 posts when I posted this (now will be 31,132), and a whole lot of people fleeing on fast camels.
Memorable, uh, memories include Christmas DOOOOOM, the story where we had to fight the Easter Bunny to save Christmas, the starting of the Padawan scheme (and Becky's and Oni's turn to the Dark Side), the crashing of the General Board which then came back again (officially named 'How the Wofflepuds got their collective groove back' on the poll section) and, more recently, the founding of the Wofflepud university, so that we can all share our random pointless knowledge.
I must thank some people. Frankie, for being the first person to join and posting an insane amount to get it off the ground, and also for being my randomness inspiration... thank you.
Jackie and Kathryn for being my first fanfic internet correspondents, and actually telling me my stories were good... thank you.
Ashley, for being the first spending-every-waking-moment-on-the-site-and-overtaking-most-people-in-a-matter-of-weeks... thank you.
My sister Becky, for bringing some class and intelligence to this place... thank you. (And Gee, most people will be grateful for.)
Thea, who has ALSO posted an insane amount and is already the 5th highest poster and is alarmingly like my mini-me.... thank you.
And finally, to the Wob-Wobs, Dufflepuds and insane people inside my head... thank you, but stop arguing so much.
Now, GO CRAZEE! *throws out Pity Cake, Anakin's mum's Cookies and Lindor*
