The Realm originated sometime during second semester in 2001, when my friend Steph and I got bored during our programming class. To tell the truth, this site started out as a side-project she and I would work on during our spare time and on weekends, then it just sorta snowballed. We started out with a few links and some basic pages and it took on a life of it's own until it became what it is today. And it's still growing!! Who knows where the next year will take us??