Well, back in 04 I lurked here a lot and had a few conversations in the chatrooms. I never really had the time to join the forums, as I was moderating offthechain (it's a music site that shut down) during the time, and found the place pretty interesting. Aside from cRMT, the forum, as a whole, was much more intelligent than the cesspool it is today.
Then, around late 05, I saw they had a CA-based pokemon club. I joined it and met Greg (PsiUmbreon) in person a bit after that. Ever since then, eh, I never really cared about this place. I never took this place seriously, from the beginning (as I'm sure everyone can obviously see) tbh, and mainly just pop in here to see what's new now-a-days.