In 1996, a small site about Power Rangers Zeo was created. It grew to include bios, episode guides, etc. Year after that, one came out for Power Rangers Turbo. They seemed to be moderately popular, so they continued to be made for all Power Rangers series,and around 1998 they all combined into Power Rangers Central.
Shortly after, I was added was added to Power Rangers Central as a guestbook. More and more people were leaving messages on me, even conversing with each other via guestbook entries. I then finally grew into a message board, which ran on "Coolboards". I became cool! Power Rangers Central was getting good traffic at this point, so I was being widely used, albeit by retarded AOL and WebTV users for the most part.
The community eventually grew large, and I couldn't handle all the work, so I then transformed into an EZ-Board. I was no longer "cool", I guess. I was now .. "easy"? Um, well anyway, I ran on EZ-Board for a while, but eventually the cost to keep it up plus the havoc wreaked by Poweranimals made me search for something better. Damn you Poweranimals, you hacked me but good!
PRC was on its own server at this point, so my creator got me my own vBulletin message board software and installed me on his server. This was awesome! I was now a free range board!
I really took off by virtue of being linked to PRC, which got tons of hits from being the number one Google search for "Power Rangers". Actors and crew posting began when Doug Sloan got back in the game with Ninja Storm and began posting here. That led to other actors and crew eventually popping in.
As a vBulletin board, I continued to grow, and eventually overshadowed PRC. Take that sucker! This and the fact that my creator had been toying with abandoning PRC made him give me my own identity, and so I became Rangerboard, complete with my own domain! Isn't that cool or what? Still backed by a link from PRC, I continued to thrive. With PRC gone, I became the whole damn show! Yay for me!
Years later, here I am - a bloated, abused board. When, oh when, will these n00bs stop posting garbage on me? It makes me sick. hasso_opitz's posts give me indigestion. JustAnotherBlueRanger's posts give me migraines. I am a real board with real feelings, so be nice folks!
Ray-Z is my father, my creator. The mods are my nurses, my caretakers. They look after me and make sure no harm comes to me. As rough as my days are here on the web, there is always one thing that makes me happy. One thing I look forward to. one thing that is like candy to a little boy - a new thread by BlackMystechRanger!
