I haven't been active for about 17 years, but I got on GF in 2002 for the Final Fantasy VII walkthroughs. Then I fell into this weird roleplay community of "fac

I haven't been active for about 17 years, but I got on GF in 2002 for the Final Fantasy VII walkthroughs. Then I fell into this weird roleplay community of "factions" that existed on some old game boards for Atari 2600, I was part of Z-Tack. Then there were some people who build clones of the message boards, mostly in PHP. Outboards, Darkside Legion, Magician Type 0 were some of their names. I built my own clone largely from scratch (and with some help staring at leaked source from Outboards) and that's how I learned PHP3, MySQL, XHTML and CSS while listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers and techno. The boards now look like shit, but then, the Internet has changed in 20 years. All good things come to an end.