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How did you find Habbo or Retros
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<blockquote data-quote="Khalil" data-source="post: 470954" data-attributes="member: 9938"><p>I discovered Habbo by way of my cousin around '07. I played around for a while, it was a nice way to waste a Saturday morning and whatever other free time I had, and then I happened upon retros around late '08 because while Habbo was lots of fun, the lack of credits pretty much removes you from the core experience of it all and since there wasn't any convenient way for someone living in North Africa to do online transactions at the time, I went looking for a way to get 'em and stumbled upon a YouTube video showcasing a retro hotel; at first I thought it sounded too good to be true, I mean... all the credits you could possibly want? That's ludicrous!</p><p></p><p>But nah, it was real, one thing lead to another and I was just immediately sucked in. I started looking into how to make your own retro and did the typical thing where you make a Weebly website and pin a loader to it, losing my mind in the process of course trying to figure out how to connect it to Debbo or Bloodline and ripping DCRs off other established retros to use as my own; later I started messing around with the flat file "CMS" types, I put CMS in quotation marks because that's a very generous term to append to what that was, port-forwarding or running Hamachi so I can play God in my own little world; gradually working my way up until I reached the PHPRetro and Holo era, picking up tidbits here and there about coding and databases and all that, slowly accumulating knowledge and growing both my skillset and interest in this brand new world of computer programming I was just thrust into. It was a crazy time in my childhood that I look back on today very fondly.</p><p></p><p>In late 2010 I started hearing the name "DevBest" but I wouldn't properly venture into it until around late 2011 (I think it was after the reset at the time? I distinctly remember making an account on the XenForo version and bouncing for a while only to come back later and finding my account gone) because it was a name that appeared quite often on the downloads section of "TheHabbos", which used to be my premiere destination for all my retro assets and resources, and the rest is pretty much history. Thinking about it actually, it's crazy how much of an impact Habbo has indirectly had on my life, I've met a lot of friends through it, I've learned a whole new language and culturally enriched myself as a result of engaging the community surrounding it, I got into programming and picked up new skills and knowledge I most likely wouldn't have today without it and frankly that doesn't even begin to cover it all but I digress.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, it's been quite the ride.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Khalil, post: 470954, member: 9938"] I discovered Habbo by way of my cousin around '07. I played around for a while, it was a nice way to waste a Saturday morning and whatever other free time I had, and then I happened upon retros around late '08 because while Habbo was lots of fun, the lack of credits pretty much removes you from the core experience of it all and since there wasn't any convenient way for someone living in North Africa to do online transactions at the time, I went looking for a way to get 'em and stumbled upon a YouTube video showcasing a retro hotel; at first I thought it sounded too good to be true, I mean... all the credits you could possibly want? That's ludicrous! But nah, it was real, one thing lead to another and I was just immediately sucked in. I started looking into how to make your own retro and did the typical thing where you make a Weebly website and pin a loader to it, losing my mind in the process of course trying to figure out how to connect it to Debbo or Bloodline and ripping DCRs off other established retros to use as my own; later I started messing around with the flat file "CMS" types, I put CMS in quotation marks because that's a very generous term to append to what that was, port-forwarding or running Hamachi so I can play God in my own little world; gradually working my way up until I reached the PHPRetro and Holo era, picking up tidbits here and there about coding and databases and all that, slowly accumulating knowledge and growing both my skillset and interest in this brand new world of computer programming I was just thrust into. It was a crazy time in my childhood that I look back on today very fondly. In late 2010 I started hearing the name "DevBest" but I wouldn't properly venture into it until around late 2011 (I think it was after the reset at the time? I distinctly remember making an account on the XenForo version and bouncing for a while only to come back later and finding my account gone) because it was a name that appeared quite often on the downloads section of "TheHabbos", which used to be my premiere destination for all my retro assets and resources, and the rest is pretty much history. Thinking about it actually, it's crazy how much of an impact Habbo has indirectly had on my life, I've met a lot of friends through it, I've learned a whole new language and culturally enriched myself as a result of engaging the community surrounding it, I got into programming and picked up new skills and knowledge I most likely wouldn't have today without it and frankly that doesn't even begin to cover it all but I digress. Honestly, it's been quite the ride. [/QUOTE]
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