Originally Posted by ketaro

It was April 12, 2005 and i was in my computer class at the time. I had finished all my assignments, so was granted access to the internets for doing my work. I opened up IE and went to google and typed in anime wallpapers. Under the findings there was a link to a site called Everything Anime Online. I clicked on the link and it took me to the gallery section, although i needed to register in order to see the wallpapers. So, i went ahead and registered, after lurking around for a couple of hours i was enchanted with the site.

After, taking a four month break, i came back and started posting regularly. I made a lot of friends, at the time the site was small and the rules were not as strict as they are now. Heck, you could spamm if you wanted to (lol, look at Hassun post count and you'll see i aint lying ^^). After a few months, all the friends i had made either got banned or stopped coming because new rules were implimented such as the no spamming rule, signature size limit etc. All these events took place during my first year here in the site.

My second year here was very lulzy, many things took place. They changed the URL from animeonline.org to animeonline.net, at first it was confusing because i got used to the .org ending. In addition, i remembered that some members started harrasing everyone including the AO staff with nasty pms and clustered the forums with all kinds of thrash. I think it took the staff two days to clean up everything.

My third year was lulzier than the second year. The site was sold to some dude that called himself Spdude. Once he took over hell broke loose, a member of the AO staff upon knowing that she was gonna get her MOD powers taken away started banning all the members that were online at the time. I unfortunately was online when that happened, so yea as a result i got banned as well. A few days later most members started leaving the site, they didnt like the way Spdude was handling the site. A few months later the site was sold again. Though, this time it was sold to DB and things started to get better once he took over the site.