somewhere between 03 and 05(?) - I was like 10 or 12 years old I think, and was at my friend's house playing foosball. Then he shows me this thing on the computer, Xiao Xiao 3. My mind was fucking blown, after that I became obsessed with stick-figure fighting. I watched all the xiaos, and discovered Madness Combat. I remember staying up playing the Madness interactive game till 3am with a different friend, cause I kinda lost contact with the friend who showed me Xiao.
I discovered pivot somehow and started making shitty animations. I tried to copy Xiao Xiao 3 by using the frame-by-frame feature it had. I eventually discovered the "forum" button on stickpage, and clicked it. (This was back when stickpage had it's own forum, it wasn't stickpageportal) That's when I realized pivot was actually a popular program and other people used it. The first really good pivot animations I saw were done by Doomdoer (now Hyperion). He had this one megaman animation where the guy shot blue projectiles, which showed me it was possible to make effects in pivot, and be able to not use the shitty default stick-man. My username on stickpage was called Tomahawk, cause I saw this cool anim Doomdoer did where I guy throws a tomahawk.
Anyways, after I discovered Droidz, I basically shit my pants because of all the custom sticks that you could just download. I started making a bunch of pretty decent anims after a while, I learned about easing through some of the tutorials. I never touched the "Main" section.
05-06(?) - Stickpage's forum got shut down. All I is remember a bunch of piv vets were talking about how the site had gone to shit, and that everyone was moving to the stickpageportal forum. I really wanted to stay at stickpage cause I didn't see the problem, maybe because it was in Main which I didn't give a shit about. I checked out SPP but didn't like the layout as much, so I stayed. I vaguely remember getting really pissed off at the community, and I made this big rant thread where I basically said that everyone was a fucking asshole and that I'm sorry I wasted so much time on the shitty site, and telling everyone that it was a waste of their time as well, and I said how the whole thing was pointless and retarded blah blah blah and nobody would ever see me again (these types of threads would be made continually throughout the years). I remember Doomdoer made some comment about how I was a dickhead, and I was sad because he was my animation hero.
2006- I may have had an account in 05 on SPP but I don't remember. I did for sure make an 06 one called "manhammer." Whenever I played smash bros. 64 with this one friend, when someone got the mallet item he'd scream "PREPARE TO GET MANHAMMERED" which I thought was fucking hilarious and had some sexual connotations. I changed my username from "Tomahawk" because obviously I didn't want anyone to know it was me, and I was actually really paranoid of that. This was the golden year of the pivot section, I think. All the greats were active and still animating, Doomdoer, Justin, Kaas, Chimaera, powerfuse0, Capn, etc.
2007 I don't remember much, I know i've had many different alt accounts over the years though. This would become the golden year of the SPP forum. I think in 07 it was "Bazooka" for most of the time. This was when I was getting pretty good at pivot, and I completely destroyed General Douchington in a pivot contest (his name back then was TheFallen I think). I had finally started using "Main" at this point. I think I had made an account prior to Bazooka, and I made a thread asking about those pickle-green egg things that people had in their signatures. They kinda looked like this, but were egg colored (
http://dragcave.net/mystery.gif) and they hatched to reveal monsters. Anyways, when I made a thread asking about it, everyone called me a huge faggot. I remember 2-D said something like, "we don't like your kind around here, faggot" and then I got really fucking furious, and had to make another account.
2008- I didn't know what trolling was back then, so I got really fucking mad every time someone called me a faggot, or did any kind of trolling on me. In 2008 I had the account "muttonhead", I think, but had name changes to Ocean, ßub, Dumbo... I got into some pretty intense fights with 2-D, RazrBlade (don't know his current name) and Kyveo (16.6% jew/ MoD/ KonflictT?), they would literally follow me around the forum and call me a faggot. After those fights I stopped getting angry cause I learned how to troll.
I made this one thread called "Panty Raid" and it was about how my friend's family was gone on vacation, and I decided to break into his house and steal his sister's panties, cause she was really hot and 2 years older than. I made the thread the night of the panty mission, and it got like 300 posts in a few hours. Some people thought it was a big joke, but I really did try to break into the house that night, twice. He lives only a block away from me, so at like 2am I ran over there and tried to get in, then came back and wrote about how I failed. Then I decided to go back and try a different way, I climbed on to this shade thing in his backyard and tried to open a window on the 2nd story but it was locked. When I got back home, I decided to delete the thread cause I was paranoid that my friend would go on SPP and read it (he had an account on here at one point).
2009 I took a really long break from SPP and came back under the account "AFRICA." I've been hated by all the mods on every account I've ever made, and by most of the member too, just because I'd eventually freak out and just make a thread telling everyone to fuck off and make a big scene. AFRICA was a pure toll account because I was bored one day and remembered SPP. I eventually got a name change back to muttonhead. At some point Dudeman became an admin, and a bunch of people got upgraded (or this may have not been in 09, idk). I remember going on mibbit pretending to be Gavel and talking to Dragon077 about football all the time, and he never figured out who I was.
2010 I basically only stayed around for the NBA thread at this point, I didn't really post anywhere else. Then I saw this stupid link in Brain C's signature about some free-forum bullshit (then called Stickpaeg). He said he'd make everyone a mod who joined. I must have been really bored when I decided to go over and check it out. Then it turned out to be pretty cool, though the only reason I stayed at first was cause I thought it'd be cool to share porn with other SPP members over there. But it actually became like 3x as active as SPP and more fun. Then MoD released a video of a certain member rubbing her tits together and Jutsu forgot to take his meds and oblex contracted biploar disorder blah blah blah, but that's a different story.
2011 spent most of my time on Outworld, stickpage's activity level hit rock bottom, I got a name change to "stone dape".
2012 Outworld's activity level hit rock bottom, stickpage's activity level broke through the first rock bottom and hit another rock bottom, then was hacked by faggots, and was then recovered and now the site has had a rebirth and the staff has been totally revamped and all that glorious SPP history has been erased. But before that, Index gave me CRAZY JAY's passwerd and I mass PM'd 30 people telling them the site was relocating to Outworld, where we enjoyed an enormous surge of activity and had around 8 people in chatbox every night for a while.
In terms of my "internet persona" I don't think i've changed much. I still curse a lot and generally don't make any attempt to be liked by anyone. The only people I consider "friends" are the ones I made at Outworld, because it's a more tight-knit community (and to be honest I don't really give a shit about them either, with a few exceptions). I look at the members here at SPP and don't see anything worth liking.