my very first forum ever was PTCO (Pok?mon Trading Cards Online). According to my profile there, I joined in June of 2001 and left in August of 2002 (more like an exile cuz I got many people pissed off for not holding up trades). Soon after that, I said, "screw the PTCG", by December of the same year, I was a frequent visitor to pokemonelite2000.com to look up info on the GB games that I had missed out on (gold, silver, and crystal). On December 29th, I happened to click on the "forums" link that took me here (back then, PE2K was a community site and the owner linked his page to PC)