Remember When?

Come sit by the fire with me and let's reminisce about what used to be...


How it began for me
I started playing Neopets December 24th 1999 when there were less than 2,000 players. I had been a betatester for Petz 3 and had a few people that helped me keep up a site I had called The Playground. One of my friends that helped on the site told me about Neopets. I soon lost interest in Petz and the site and brought the rest that worked on The Playground site to Neopets. Three of them still play Neopets.

This is the first pet I created
I named her HollyNoel because it was Christmas eve and this is
how she looked in the beginning as a red Aisha.

Remember the Trophy Pages?

This is how she looks now.

Remember these other old pets?

Tigren which later became the Acara

Grarrl

Badeek which later became the Kacheek

Bruce

Flye which later became the Buzz

Cerpull which became the Tatsu and then Eyrie

Flotsam

Jetsam

Elephante

Frogstomp which later became the Quiggle

Fuzio which later became the Kyrii

Polypup which later became the Gelert

Grundo

Jib Jib which later became the Jub Jub

Macy Gray which later became the Kau

Kiko

Koi

Korbat

Lenny

Lupe

Mellish which later became the Mynci


Nimmo

Peophin

Scorchio

Shoyru

Skeith

Techo

Tuskaninny

Uni

Usul

Wocky

Zafara


Remember?
Livechat rooms in all the main neoshops and hanging out in them waiting for main shops to restock
Faerie Quests were unlimited
There was no quickstock, everything was stocked one item at a time into your shop or deposit box
User Theme Parks where your pets paid to go on rides and found random items like balloons

You could buy wine from the food shop for about 120 neopoints
Discount Cards where you got a percentage off when buying items from main shops

Anyone having over 100,000 neopoints was considered rich
The Battledome didn't open to everyone until January 2001
You couldn't build a Neohome until March 2001
It cost 3 totems to go to Mystery Island when it first opened and you went by boat

Players could create a new item and submit to Neopets and some where used as real neoitems (jabbathehutt created several neggs, chris22099 made the original snowglobe and I had 2 items, the HRobibear and the HollyNoel ring)
HRobibear became the Cool Purple TeddyBear (atleast it's my favorite colour)

The Story of the HollyNoel Ring and the Fish Negg

Once upon a time in the land of Neopia. A sweet fuzio by the name of Nut_case gave this ring to a pretty lil aisha named HollyNoel in May of 2000. But it wasn't fair for it to be the only one in the land so, in July of 2000 it was changed into the Fish Negg. The image was changed again in the Spring of 2001. We will always treasure the sentiment.


Battle and Magic

Hypno Helmet, new Hypno Helmet then changed to H4000 Helmet

Thyoras Tear

Grand Lightning Beam

Rainbow Frost Cannon

Grarrl Gauntlet

Downsize!

Dark Faerie became Bottled Dark Faerie

Light Faerie became Bottled Light Faerie

Earth Faerie became Bottled Earth Faerie

Fire Faerie became Bottled Fire Faerie

Air Faerie became Bottled Air Faerie

Water Faerie became Bottled Water Faerie

I'm so glad the Faeries have faces now

Amulet of the Dark Faerie

Wand of the Light Faerie

Staff of the Earth Faerie

Orb of the Fire Faerie

Circlet of the Air Faerie

Necklace of the Water Faerie

Bronze Dragon Stone became the Bronze Scorchstone

Golden Dragon Stone became the Golden Scorchstone

Silver Dragon Stone became the Silver Scorchstone

Earthen Dragon Stone became the Earth Scorchstone

Faerie Portrait

Magic Key

Frost Mote

Water Mote

Orange Invisihat

Flaming Torch

Ultra Rainbow Flash


Food and Drink

I remember this as Bottle of Beer though some say it was Neorona
but it was changed to Neocola


Exotic Plant

Ferrero Rocher became the Neotruffle

Wriggling Grub

Grubwich

Chocolate Ice Cream

Rainbow N and N's became Rainbow Neodrops

Rose Wine became Sparkling Grape Juice

White Wine became Sparkling Apple Juice

Red Wine became Sparkling Raspberry Juice


Toys

Angel Chia Doll became Angel Chia Plushie


Evil Chia Doll became Limited Edition Evil Chia Plushie


Baby Doll


Clock


Etchsketch became Sketch a Pic


Gold Bike


Laptop Computer



Video Shop

The Shopkeeper

The Petrix was changed to The Chetrix and then to the Golden Shoyru Book

Chia Don't Cry was changed to the Book of Bizarre Tales

Nimmo Yoga was changed to the Bitten Book

Saving Private Jetsam was changed to the Book of Bones

Karate Jub was changed to the Ancient Book

Scorch Little was changed to the Warped Book

The Thingi from Majingi was changed to the Book of Splinters

Kiko Goes Boom! was changed to the Scaled Magic Book

Usuls Day Off was changed to the Nimmo Joe Book

My Little Uni was changed to the Popular Neopian Stories

My Little Uni II was changed to the Book of Symbols

U-504 was changed to the Solid Steel Book

Eyrie Indiana was changed to the Book of Sea Spells

The Good, The Kacheek, and The Ugly was changed to the Book of Pain

Adventures of Bloop was changed to the Locked Book

Revenge of the Birds was changed to the Book of Ice Magic

Skreech was changed to the Book of Vision

Moovie was changed to the Bound Magic Book


Getting around Neopia

First Shop Map

First Game Cupboard


Rumour or Not?
Yes, I was once a volunter monitor/admin for Neopets. It was an honour to help monitor the boards and I did that from April 2000 to January 2001. They stopped having volunteers monitor the site but I still find myself watching the boards and reporting those that need deleted. I'm a lurker, yep yep. :P

No, I was not given the Baby Negg. I traded a Fish Negg for it. I did great on the negg trade but look at what I spent for a silly Rainbow Scooter. I traded the Baby Negg after about a year and that buyer duped it so TNT turned it into sparkling Apple Juice. Too bad, it was such a cute item.



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