When i first got on the net, sometime in early '98, maybe even late '97, i saw all these "HomePages" around, and i got curious. I talked to my dad (conveniently a computer programmer) about how to start one. He told me to go out and look. Naturally, i wasn't too pleased with this answer, as i had NO idea where to start. Eventually i heard html was the language most people used for their pages.

Now, i had absolutely no idea what html was at the time. I didn't even know it WAS a computer language. But i went to good old Yahell! search engine (Yahell! being where my conquests on the internet had begun), and typed in 'html'. It took me to a page with fair-to-decent information on html, so i read through it, writing down bits of code that i had no idea where to put, or how to make them work together. But i wrote them down anyway, hoping i'd be able to make sense of them later.

Then i had a new problem. Where was i supposed to put all this code? Where was the place where i could make my page? How was i supposed to find it? I saw something about Homepages in Yahell!, so i checked it out, and ended up signing with geocities. But i couldn't figure out how to edit my page. So i got frustrated, and decided that (to put it nicely/lightly...) the matter could wait.

Finally i renewed my resolve and tried again, this time determined to make myself a page, damnit! I found angelfire web-hosting, i don't remember exactly how, but after i signed up, i found their setup very easy to use and understand, and soon i had the very basics of my page, and the basics of basic html.

Slowly, i began to learn more. Then i found that i could 'view sources' of other peoples' pages. I'd copy and paste to my page, and look to see which bits of code did what. That paper of notes i had taken before re-surfaced out of the depths of my room, and i began to understand more. After a time, i could easily put up images, links, fiddle with fonts and font sizes, and even put up lists and format a little.

And it grew from there. I look back now at a print-out of the site (which at the time consisted of a very long mainpage with everything except the pictures on it), dated 2/24/99, and i laugh at how primitive it was. And i was also a very heavy bandwidth stealer, as i had no idea what bandwidth was, and my computer only had IE 3.0 at the time, which didn't support uploads.



From the beginning, it was a page about dragons. I based it on a book series i had read, naively ignorant of copywrites and the like, claiming myself to be one of the characters from the story. I role-played (RP) my character, Kara, in Yahell! chat, not even really knowing what 'RP' was. Slowly, ever so slowly, did i learn what i had gotten myself into. What drove it home was when one of my characters (yet another copywrited character(not so incidently, a dragon)) joined an 'Ayenee' clan, LakeClan. I finally began to learn the diffence between In Character (IC) and Out of Character (OOC). Even though i 'played' all my characters, i had to learn that it did not mean that they all knew the same people, much less all be friends with them. If one of my characters learned or knew some information, none of my other characters could claim that same information just because i, as their controller, knew it.

LakeClan gave me the key to RPing, though even today i still have trouble RPing a character that differs from my own IRL personality. But i owe my RP 'skills' (if they can be called that) to the people behind LakeClan, namely those who played Soul, BIaze, Gold/Moon, Mist, and Silver. I also was made to realize i couldn't be playing these people from books. That was when the whole page changed, and when the story of Kara's past began.

Eventually this page became what it is today, Kara becoming her own person (tho still related to the stories i got her from, which i still have to figure out how to change), and the sub-pages growing as i added more pictures and got everything off the main page, later adding poems and short-stories. And it is growing still. I have added the unicorns, and am pondering adding elves as well. I'm sure some of you have noticed that none of the pictures of dragons on this site have any humans with them. This is because i myself believe that dragons are free creatures, and none would lower himself so as to allow a human to ride him, or place restrainst upon him. Dragons were born free, and meant to roam the skies. Humans were not meant to live in their world of utter freedom, nor are they worthy.