Back in the user room days of Yahoo chat, I role played under Ayenee rules although I didn't actually know that name at the time (I heard it thrown around but had no point of reference). But yeah, the Internet was just around the corner of becoming a common household commodity (before you say anything about my word choice, Internet time in my household was very much a commodity) and I discovered the wonders of live chat. I was pretty young at the time, maybe 11 years old and I managed to get more Internet time by making my dad laugh. You see, whenever he was on the computer, he would be playing solitaire on FreeCell so I went to the store down the street and bought him a pack of cards and asked if I could FINALLY use the computer.
Anyways, back on track. So I discovered role playing the the Arts & Entertainment section of Yahoo (I actually only recently discovered that Ayenee got their name by sounding out A&E). I did A LOT of role playing back in the day and for the first couple of years, I would actually create an entire new user name for each new character because I would use the profile section for my character. It would be around 2001, or the glory days of Windows XP, when I learned how to use Tripod to create my own web pages that I stuck to a single user name for all of my characters. In fact, as I was writing this, I was inspired to try to find one of my old pages and holy crappola, it's still there. I typed in my old character's name and it was the first link on Google and I'm cringing as I read it. If I knew how to get on there and burn it from the endless memory of the Internet, I would.