Site History
Get ready for a long story...Well, it all started back it April of 2006. I really loved Pokemon , and loved fan sites like TCoD, Mewstar Island, Seribii.net, Pikachu's Hideaway, and many others.
One day, I was lounging at the Pokémon.com mailbag, and saw that someone mailed a question about "Anti-Pokémon":
"When I was surfing the web, I found an Anti-Pokémon website. I was very angry with them. They said that Pokémon is violent and a bad example for children. They also say it's like cock-fighting. Pokémon is about making friends, competing, and having fun. It's about a dream (to be a Pokémon master). It's about the friendship between the trainers and their Pokémon."REPLY:
Pokémon Haters will always exist - usually they are itching for a flame war, or trying to discourage others from enjoying Pokémon. 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 Pokémon fans, they'll go away. Trust me. Oh, and cock-fighting? We assure you no real Pokémon were harmed in the making of the video games, anime, or trading card games.Intrigued by this conversation, I searched for both AP and AAP online; I found a lot of surprising results. I found gory, graphic Anti-Pokémon sites. I also found the Mewstar Island Anti-Anti-Pokémon page (back when it still had the style-switcher), the 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 Yahoo had a free webhosting service called "GeoCities", I almost immediately signed up. I started with the PageBuilder. The top said "Welcome to the Anti-Anti-Pokémon Alliance!" with a cute little Pikachu. I started with some okay content, but the layout really sucked. The navigation was plain: Times-New Roman text on the left. It was way to big. The background differed from page to page. While surfing some fansites, I heard about a new tend that was gaining popularity: affiliation. In the days following, I sent out tons on affiliation requests -- and almost all of them were denied (for good reason).
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 heartbroken. I mean, come on! I had worked so hard on the website! But now I don't blame her; back then I didn't know a speck of HTML (that's why I was using PageBuilder). So when I went to the Pokémon Palace Network one day, I saw a link for Free Layouts. I thought, Yay! This is what I need! When I clicked on the link, it gave me some decent-looking layouts. But guess what? You can't use HTML with PageBuilder, and let's just say I learned that the hard way.
After spending nearly 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. Afterwards, I decided to read up on HTML.
I searched the web for HTML help and right at the top was a site called Lissa Explains it All - HTML help for kids. I clicked ecstatically. I read every single lesson on HTML, but didn't soak up anything. The only thing I remembered was that HTML stood for Hypertext Markup Language and it's the stuff 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 and found Tripod. It was an okay host, except for the annoying pop-ups.
For a while I thought was doing pretty good. However, I was brought to reality when I recieved replies to my many affiliation requests: most of them said my layout stunk and I needed more content (both were true). But, I managed to grasp affiliation with G`eye, MegaPokePlushieLand, and ...In a PKMN world.
I changed layouts from my PPN blue one to a yellow one from Espeons Home, which I changed 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.
By 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 Pokémon. 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.
Now it's not considered History anymore, so go away!