Way back in March, 2007, I remember joining the site because I wanted to WiFi with people. I remember seeing a giveaway and thinking "This is so stupid, why would people waste their time working, for free, in a giveaway?". And then a week later I joined IMG, and then JUG. Left IMG once it closed, worked with JUG, became a Scout, joined TONG, JUG closed.
Of course, that's basically my life on ACC. Lots of stuff have happened between them. And I didn't create my first BT until October, 2008. I've stayed this far on ACC because it's fun to work with people in the Giveaways, and to help on the staff.
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My earliest memory is when I joined back in 2006 and did my first GC trade with MiniFrog. She was so polite and I was such a n00b. Good times.
Pretty much right after, I received an invite and joined Dalek's giveaway. I miss those times!
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Definitely wild world. I used to wifi everyday, and it was my main reason for ACC, to find gamers to connect with. Awesome times for sure, I still do wifi a lot today, just on city folk instead.
I have two specific memories from my earliest time on ACC. The first is as a super-n00b, I entered a pattern contest and I was all nervous about it and thought it would be a big deal, and spent ALL this time making my pattern to be entered, but then later on I realized how humongous this site was, and that there were actually like a million little pattern contests and other threads like that, and it wasn't any big deal at all. I don't even think the girl who's contest it was ever even followed through and gave out any sort of reward.
My other is of asking to be a part of AC Radio, which was basically an RPG chat pretending to be a radio station (before I understood that stuff like that was totally not belonging on the public boards ) I succeeded at my interview and became one of the main "DJs" for that "station" and had tons of fun for the week or so that it lasted. I met some of my first real ACC buddies doing that, and am still buddies with some of those folks. It was the first time I felt like I really fit in with and was part of the ACC community.
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My first memory was before I joined, actually. I was looking for patterns, and found some sites like AXA and ACC. I used AXA because it didn't require you to log in. After a while, I broke down and joined ACC... then let my account stay dormant for four months.
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My first memory was going on to look for things to enhance my AC:GC experience. I joined in 05, right before AC:WW came out. Also, I remember looking around and making a few friends to talk to within the first few weeks.
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I joined because I wanted a place to find people to wifi with in WW. Kareth was my scout. After a week or so I found the "jobs" and got hired as a Landscaper at Z & F's Landscaping. I did that for a week or so before I applied at JUG as a pattern designer. I got turned down. And applied again as an Interior Designer. This time I got hired.
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Gosh, it was such a long time ago I don't remember much of any of my early time on the site
I do know that I orginally joined because I had been playing ACGC for almost a year and I still wasn't able to get anywhere close to completing my catalog even with having two towns. So I was looking for a way to trade items with other people and happened upon ACC. I think I had some early success in trading items and just thought the trading post for GC items was amazing. I soon discovered the giveaways where you could get people to give you the items and want nothing in return. Sweet! And in large volumes for the most part. Double sweet! I spent my first few months requesting from giveaways before actually deciding to give back by joining one, which was Johntown327's Unlimited Giveaway.
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That's easy: e-cards!! My friend sent me an email with a link to the site and told me people were trading e-cards here. I made an account, got what I needed and didn't really come back for a month or so. Then I found JUG and it was all over, lol!
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Wow, it has been a long 4 years and my best memory is trading with some of the most generous members of ACC. Because of them I fell in love with giveaways and now find working in giveaways (and being a scout) the best way of giving back what I love most about ACC.
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My earliest memory is of my scout The Crossing Raven. Whilst I never actually spoke to her because I found ACC rather easy to get started, I thought it was a cool idea that ACC had scouts.
Another early memory I have was joining IMG as an updater early last year.
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Hey, lookie, I get to answer my own question! Anyway, I remember sending out several PTs; one to pedro_collins; he had welcomed me on my welcome thread I think, and he helped me alot. (I did have a Scout, Scotch, but I was confused and didn't want to be adopted. The PT was called accidental adoption I think. ) Also I sent one to someone who was also called Grace, and someone who had that copy and paste thing in their profile "olny samrt poelpe can raed tihs".
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