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History
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. Thanks to all of you! |
