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Well, it all started back it April of 2006. I really loved Pokemon (and I still do). I saw (and loved!) fan sites like TCoD, Mewstar Island, Seribii.net, Pikachu's Hideaway, and many others.

One day, I was lounging at the Pokemon.com mailbag, and saw that someone mailed a question about Anti-Pokemon. Here it is:

"When I was surfing the web, I found an Anti-Pokemon website. I was very angry with them. They said that Pokemon is violent and a bad example for children. They also say it's like cock-fighting. Pokemon is about making friends, competing, and having fun. It's about a dream (to be a Pokemon master). It's about the friendship between the trainers and their pokemon."

REPLY:

"Pokemon Haters will always exist - usually they are itching for a flame war, or trying to discourage others from enjoying Pokemon. Deal with these sites in the same way that you would deal with other unpleasant things in your life - IGNORE THEM. Once they no longer have the attention of Pokemon fans, they'll go away. Trust me. Oh, and cock-fighting? We assure you no real Pokemon were harmed in the making of the video games, anime, or trading card games."

So that was it. I was AAP. After searching for both AP and AAP online, I found a lot of surprising results. I found gory, graphic AP sites. I also found the Mewstar Island AAP page (back when it still had the style switcher xD), TCoD AAP page, and whole lot more. Then I thought, what if I make a site like those?

I use Yahoo Mail, so when I saw they had a free webhosting service called GeoCities (*shudder*), I immediately signed up. I started with the PageBuilder. The top said "Welcome to the Anti-Anti-Pokemon Alliance!" with a cute little Pikachu. I started with some okay content, but the layout reeeealllyy sucked. The navigation was plain, Times-New-Roman text on the left. It was WAY to big. The background differed from page to page. But then I heard the magic word that still rings in my ears today: AFFILIATION. I sent out tons on affiliation requests! Almost all of them were denied except for Pikachu's Pokechow.

When I got a reply back from Mewstar Island's Crystylla, she said that I needed a better layout and needed more of a constant theme between pages. I was... in a word... heartbroken. I mean, come on! I had worked so hard on the website! But now I don't blame her. ^_^ I fact, I probably would have coaxed her to put in a curse word or two. (just kidding!)

Back then I didn't know a speck of HTML. That's why I was using PageBuilder. So when I went to PPN (the Pokemon Palace Network) one day, I saw a link for "Free Layouts". I thought, Yay! This is what I need! When I clicked on it, it gave me some decent-looking layouts. But guess what? YOU CAN'T USE HTML WITH PAGEBUILDER. Let's just say I learned that the hard way. After spending an hour editing the layout in Microsoft FrontPage, I went to put it in my PageBuilder's "HTML" section and guess what? Nothing but a red "X"! I swear I almost cried. :( Then I decided to read up on HTML.

So I searched the web for HTML help and right at the top was a site called "Lissa Explains it All - HTML help for kids". Ecstatic, I clicked. I read every single lesson on HTML, but didn't soak up anything. About the only thing I remembered was that HTML stood for "Hypertext Markup Language" and it's the thing that makes up websites. It was a good thing I had FrontPage to edit my website. When I discovered that you could automatically publish your site with FrontPage, I searched for a new host. I found Tripod. It was an okay host, except for the annoying pop-ups.

For a while I thought was doing pretty good. But then I got some hurtful but true affiliation e-mails. Most of them said my layout stunk and I needed more content (both were true). But, I managed to grasp affiliation with G`eye, MPPL, and ...In a PKMN world.

I changed layouts from my PPN blue one to a yellow one from Espeons Home. It really wasn't that good. I changed it a day after I put it online. Then I switched to a Latios Blue one from the Pokeball. I had that one for a while and grasped affiliation with Eevee's HQ.

At this time it was late August, and summer was over. I closed and re-opened the site about three times until I finally just shut it down for good.

Over the two months that followed, I gradually lost interest in Pokemon -- my interest was now in Mario games. But then I realized that I still loved Pokemon.

In late October, after lots of back-and-forth e-mailing between me and AgentChronon from MPPL, I brought the AAPA out of ruin and dubbed it AobaruNet. And that's where we are right now.

UPDATE: With the new "High in the Sky" style, AobaruNet entered into Version 3! Officially: .:AobaruNet v3:. ^^ OMG!!!

UPDATE AGAIN: With the new Darkness Ridge style, AobaruNet entered v4! ^_^ ^_^ And with PREEEEETTTY FIRE!~, it entered v4.5!! And with Giggly Mew, it entered V5!!! ^____^

Now it's not considered History anymore, so go away!