The streets, yo.
A story? Well I'm no good at those. Though I suppose I could give it a try. I joined in 2004, just mucked about in the forums. I got into mapmaking for RA2/YR shortly afterward. I was terrible at making maps, but hey, I tried (Anyone remember my weekly contests? :lol: ). I also got into graphic design and website development. With the help of the Doctor (then Fenring), I made a C&C fansite, C&C Tomorrow (thanks again, man). That site tanked after a few months. Somewhere in there I was a mod in the CNCNZ forums and an admin at Freedom Studios. After realizing that making sites and such was more fun than making maps, I learned PHP and started freelance coding. I've been doing that ever since.
tl;dr: I was here, then I wasn't