My first character was created...

[mansa]

...Thu Dec 31 23:35:46 1998

That's 20 years ago.


When was your first character created?

[X-D]

March of 1993.

[Medena]

August of 2003

[KittenLicks]

Gosh, X-D, you made your first char before I was created.

On topic, my first char was June 2017.

[perfecto]

Sometime in the Fall 1996.. I remember the smell of the leaves as I was hacking muthafuckas up with bone swords

[Lizzie]

...in Tek's image.

[Aruven]

Sometime in the Fall 2003.. I remember the smell of the leaves as I was hacking muthafuckas up with bone swords

[Narf]

Sometime in the Fall 1996.. I remember the smell of the leaves as I was hacking muthafuckas up with bone swords

That was about the same time I first joined. I remember it was before winter vacation because I died with one of my characters before winter vacation and it took until the end for them to approve my next character.

[valeria]

April 22, 2009

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I can't remember exactly, and I'm not actually sure how to find out. On my second, and current account, a penned gladiator is the oldest entry, and that is August 30, 2001. But I had a main character on this account that's listed when I log into the MUD itself, but not in my account on the webpage. And I had two other characters a year or two before that.

So although I can't nail down this answer, my first foray (but not real characters to me) into this game was in 99-00, but my first real character was created in either late 00 or early 2001.

[Riev]

I started college in 2003, so I think my first character was created probably around December-ish of 2003.

My first MUD character was created probably in 1996 on EmeraldMUD.

[frankjacoby]

Very Early 90's

[Akariel]

April 2010

[Brytta Léofa]

Jan 28, 2006

Yes, a rinthi pickpocket.

[nak4life]

Early 2001 on first account. Then not again until 2006 on this one.

[Heade]

1998-1999 on my first account.

[Is Friday]

2006 on my first account.

[Lizzie]

Actual truth: I started around the same time as the poster known as "John." Pretty sure that was 2002. I can't remember who my first character was; Willa or Narie. My current account started in 2006, with the character Landra.

[LindseyBalboa]

Going all the way back, it looks like my first char was... December 2018!

[Sedora]

Fall 2013.

[ShaLeah]

Character: ShaLeah
Start Date: September 16, 2001
Guild: Warrior
Subguild: Bard
Race: Human
Played: 23 days, 2 hours
Died: December 9, 2001

[slipshod]

≈1995/1996.  His name was Stel.

[Cind]

Might be 2008, although someone I knew in school played it in tenth grade or so, a couple of years before it was able to hook me.

[Nathvaan]

January 1, 1997

[Kol]

Tue Oct 28 11:31:23 2008

[Feco]

April 1, 2010

My first play session had Pikachu and the joke skill-level indicators (right before they were implemented for real, I think!).

[valeria]

January 1, 1997

This is almost exactly when I started playing MUDs in general.

12 years old, winter semester, the seventh-grade advanced math teacher let 3 dorky middle schoolers eat lunch in his classroom and watch him MUD. I can't remember anything about the mud except the currency was in pearls I think

[ignealea]

April of 2016 

[Bebop]

I believe mine was 2004... I can't check using the request/bio tool.  Too far back unless I'm missing something.

[John]

Actual truth: I started around the same time as the poster known as "John." Pretty sure that was 2002. I can't remember who my first character was; Willa or Narie. My current account started in 2006, with the character Landra.

Turns out the account notes we request has this information. My character either logged in or was approved at this date and time: Sat Jul 13 00:51:11 2002

September that year was when we lost the HyperNews version of the forum and got something resembling this forum.

[Lizzie]

Actual truth: I started around the same time as the poster known as "John." Pretty sure that was 2002. I can't remember who my first character was; Willa or Narie. My current account started in 2006, with the character Landra.

Turns out the account notes we request has this information. My character either logged in or was approved at this date and time: Sat Jul 13 00:51:11 2002

September that year was when we lost the HyperNews version of the forum and got something resembling this forum.

It was definitely in 2002 then. I posted on the hypernews version, somewhere near the end of that incarnation of the forum.

[Knight of Knives]

My account would be a millenial.

[Bushranger]

Actual truth: I started around the same time as the poster known as "John." Pretty sure that was 2002. I can't remember who my first character was; Willa or Narie. My current account started in 2006, with the character Landra.

Turns out the account notes we request has this information. My character either logged in or was approved at this date and time: Sat Jul 13 00:51:11 2002

September that year was when we lost the HyperNews version of the forum and got something resembling this forum.

This only works if your first character was made when Armageddon had an account system. Some of us predate accounts.

[valeria]

Were there approval emails back then?  Or did you just keep refreshing the MUD until you saw you were approved?

[Metrophilia]

Were there approval emails back then?  Or did you just keep refreshing the MUD until you saw you were approved?

There were indeed approval emails back then.

[valeria]

That might be a way to come up with a date for you older veterans, if you still have access to the emails you used to use back then.

[Rumor]

Aug 22, 2012. Mos def have not been playing for very long, compared to so many that are still active.

[Bushranger]

That might be a way to come up with a date for you older veterans, if you still have access to the emails you used to use back then.

Haha. My first character predates google and gmail. There is no more geocities to check the email!

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Yeah, I had an aol email for my very first character.

[Delirium]

At some point in 2002... I played for a few months before I signed up on the GDB, IIRC.

[Bogre]

Early 2003 if I recall correctly.

[zeia]

Beginning of 2009 I believe! Ten years!! Boo yah!

[valeria]

Beginning of 2009 I believe! Ten years!! Boo yah!

*high-fives*

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, since my 2009 Armversary is conveniently the same year and around the same time that I graduated from college.  So also, 10 years 

[zeia]

Beginning of 2009 I believe! Ten years!! Boo yah!

*high-fives*

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, since my 2009 Armversary is conveniently the same year and around the same time that I graduated from college.  So also, 10 years 

We need party crackers, and fireworks to celebrate!  Or complimentary skill bumps *squints at staff* lol

[Shalooonsh]

Aug 22, 2012. Mos def have not been playing for very long, compared to so many that are still active.

I don't think Mos Def has ever played, but he definitely should.  I bet he'd play a mean elf.

[Voular]

2007. First character was named Theodoric. Everyone called him Theo. Played a bunch of warriors.

[Barsook]

Jul 17, 2010

[azuriolinist]

June 22, 2015.

Holy shit, my old bios.

[MeTekillot]

June 14, 2009.

Registered on GDB a month later. Didn't post until August because of how intimidating it seemed.

[nak4life]

Jan 6, 2006 for first PC.

Second PC was made Feb 2008, cause the first PC lasted that long!

[th3kaiser]

September of 2000. I murdered some children in the orchards south of Tuluk before getting executed in the Sanctuary by a Blue Robe for not bowing or something. Suffice to say, I did not understand the game at that point.

[Furious George]

Late Summer 1993.

[The Great Corn]

May 10, 2006.. Now we're 266 characters later.

[ShaiHulud]

93 94 I think. I remember this blue skinned elf I made. Followed a group of fancy fucks into a compound, Kadius I think.  Stole so much shit, was weighted, then had to deal with a gate guard and smooth talked out again. With the loot! I rolled a twenty!

[Cind]

Got kanked by halflings right outside the gates of Tuluk, my guts spilling out in many colors as my hands went to them to try to hold them in. Don't remember the year, doubt it was earlier than 2008.

[Bushranger]

I think you mean ganked by halflings.

I really don't want to imagine someone's guts spilling out of them after they were kanked by halflings!

[Cind]

Yes, I meant ganked.

That's funny.

[Shaydee]

May 7th 2017!

Played a little, stopped for almost two years came back a couple months ago and now I'm really starting to get into it with a new character! Still learning a lot though.

[azuriolinist]

May 7th 2017!

Played a little, stopped for almost two years came back a couple months ago and now I'm really starting to get into it with a new character! Still learning a lot though.

Welcome back! So glad to hear you're enjoying.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

May 7th 2017!

Played a little, stopped for almost two years came back a couple months ago and now I'm really starting to get into it with a new character! Still learning a lot though.

Welcome back!

[Esbit]

March, a little earlier this month! I had -so- much fun, and I'm happy that I'd made something of an impact on others. I'm super excited to make this next character and pour in the same heart I did from my first. This place is a lot of fun, and I feel I'll be here a while!

[Morrolan]

Fall 1993 to May 1994. Then back in like 2002.

[Thomoto]

Hmm,

July 26th of 2018.

He died, july 26th of 2018,

Time played: 5 minutes

Rip dumbass

[Aruven]

2003 : backstabbed in labyrinth