Rainbow Resort was founded by me (KindarSpirit) so many years ago. It started when we got AOL. My dad told me all these cool things you could do with webapges, and I was like "Ha, yea right. You keep your webpages, I'll play videogames." Of course he was right. One day I was browsing around on the net for things I loved, and Kirby was one of them. I was so disappointed that there were so few Kirby sites. That moment I knew I wanted to make a Kirby site. I played the games on my game systems, just as I did with the ROMs on my computer (naughty I know). I knew how to take screenshots from them and make them as wallpapers (much to my dad's annoyance) and I thought, "Hey I could put these on the internet." I began to work on the site on my dad's computer, and I knew instantly what I wanted to call it - Kirby's Rainbow Resort! It was a level from Kirby's Adventure, the first Kirby game I played back in 1993. I loved the level so much, it wasn't hard to decide. So, I used the aol home page publisher thing way back in 1997 or so. It was up at http://members.aol.com/Nefermau, but out of frustration I kept taking it down. AOL removed their publisher thing and I was so frustrated, because then I had to learn HTML. A year or so went by, and I just gave up on it. Then, for whatever reason I tinkered with it and put up a site on xoom. It had three different xoom urls over a year or so: http://members.xoom.com/Nefermau (the first one), http://members.xoom.com/xnepenthessx (the second one), and http://members.xoom.com/rainbowresort (the last one). It was this URL that opened RR in September 26th, 1999. (So now you can see, RR was around sometime before 9.26.99 - scary!). I don't know why I wouldn't stick to one stinkin' URL. I think it was because I ran out of website space - I can't remember. Around this time, I met and talked to Gryphon Ten, who is an extremely talented artist. He gave me so many ideas and help on the site, I am in his debt to this day. I also met a guy by the name of Skirbyy (you know I love ya James). He was so smart mouthed I was intimidated by him. =) He ran one of the best Kirby sites ever, Kirby Box. We both became good friends and got up the nerve to ask Zophar from Zophar.net if he would host both our Kirby sites. Surprisingly, Zophar liked our sites and set us up to move immediately! Rainbow Resort became officially open on Zophar's March 26th, 2000. However, our days at Zophar's place was numbered. It's a great community of people, but when Zophar quit the site, I decided it was time to move again. Somehow RR just didn't quite fit too well into the emulation scene (it's pretty obvious). So, I scouted around but I had trouble finding a place where we would be accepted and fit in. It was a blessing when I stumbled on a site that I had known so well, but never dreamed of being hosted under: www.classicgaming.com. Almost instantly William, who was then running the site but has since quit, accepted our plea immediately and we opened on December 21st, 2000! It was real exciting. =) He even put a post on the front page of Classicgaming.com and made us more than welcome. We've been at Classicgaming.com now for 3 years (almost!) and it doesn't look like we are moving. =) RR has had a journey, and it's thanks to all the wonderful people along the way who have visited, hosted, staffed and posted on the message board. With Special Thanks to: Aqua
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