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About Gaiaonline ninja
There are a lot of people Who don't Know the Truth behind Gaiaonline and how it was sort of created so basically here I am to tell all of you the story of Gaiaonline. You know Lanzer's pretty crazy knowledgeable. For a place that's so busy, it moves pretty zippy. A little community story (or should I say: The internet is a small, small world):
Once upon a time, there was a community called the FAHQ (Fan Artist Headquarters). It used to be small, and made of artists in their early to late teens and early twenties: all aspiring to be comic book artists, writers, illustrators, or animators some day. They were full of dreams, but mostly still in school. It had started off as a directory, which exploded into more. Add a little forum and chatroom, and voila--instant community. Fast forward to now. FAHQ has been defunctional for at least 8 years now There was an Inside joke that the height was reached in 1998. However, many "communities" popped up trying to replace it. These communities still had the same people visiting it--however, look how grown up they are! Some of the people can be seen working for Dreamwave and Marvel; some are published in independent publications. Others are in Sheridan College, taking animation, or other colleges taking art courses. Some have become jaded. Strangers became best friends and roommates; some started dating.
Lanzer was/is part of this community, along with many of the artists I'd mentioned above. In fact, most of the official illustrations on Gaia Online are from those artists (notably "Saka" and "L0cke" wink . Gaia has become overwhelmed with its popularity, driving the artists that originally graced its presence away. There's a lot of nostalgia with this group of people, though. They mostly reside in the California Bay Area or Toronto, Canada, but can be found all over the world, including pockets of Malaysia and Singapore. They can also be found in the comic book or anime convention circuits, selling their self-published works, paintings, and illustrations.
I think that it's mostly a story of how the internet really is one big social network that can really affect life.

Also After Gaiaonline Started it took many baby steps to becoming as huge as it is today. There was many things that they had to go through like many glitches and lots of updates. The original gaiaonline had no map when it first started out and as people told them on new things the more people came here. I hope this helped your curiousity. I know it did when I found out how this was started.

Wasn't that just amusing. I was really borrreeed! So i felt like putting this to intertain meh. 3nodding