you remember when there were less than 1000 gaia members
you remember Go-Gaia
you would know that towns was a place you went to shop
you would know they never used to have a place you could go to to go bug catching or flower picking
you remember the original gaia outline...
you liked the outline where your character was at the top left hand corner
you remember when the arena was just for art
you remember when gaia was not so high tech looking
you remember the first time you explored the world map
you remember when the town of Aekea was new
you were afraid of some of the things the robots said
you remember and hated the "14g posts"
you remember that when you wanted gold you would go to a bump thread and try to get the most bumps
you also remember when the gaia store first opened
you remember your 1000th post
you remember how high your post count got in those bump threads
you know how old gaia is, and that it originated in 2003
you remember the big wars between the angels and the demons
you remember when the Item List was actually existent on Gaia... and viewable, with images that weren't broken.
you remember when in the Chatterbox, there weren't just threads for chatting, but even a few role plays.
you remember when the Chatterbox wasn't corrupted with sex and hentai and whatever.
you remember when Avatar Contests were the "Newest thing" and everyone was doing it.
you remember when avi contests actually worked and you weren't ripped off every time
you remember when the avi contest craze died
you remember when gaia didn't need so many mods
you remember when gaia had no games
you remember when you didn't customize your profile all your information was in your signature
you remember when you didn't always have people PMing you demanding gold
you remember when you had to go to the map to shop and you didn't get to teleport to where you wanted to go you had to push the arrows to get there
you remember when you didn't have to point out to noobs that they were noobs because they acted mature
when gaians were nice to each other
you remember the treasure chests and flying boxes
you remember before the "brown flying boxes"
you remember when gaia actually had "Pink Links"
you remember when you would pay others to make your wish list and they would put the number of pink links and boxes you got on that list
you remember when you understood what people typed
remember when this rofl this pirate and this talk2hand was added to the emoticons
and when it was just
biggrin smile redface stare
xd 3nodding blaugh gonk scream
stressed sweatdrop heart domokun xp
whee wink sad surprised eek
and then a "see more" button
you remember when people actually cared about what their art in the arena looked like and they didn't submit two second drawings
when not everything was about how much gold you made
you remember when people came on gaia to meet people and not to see who has the best avatar
you remember when there were more 'rate me' threads than any other type of thread
you remember when you pushed the "online" button on your friends list and it actually showed you who out of your friends were online
you remember before "hidden" was a status option
when there were bumping contests where you actually got a reward
you remember before you could change what your word bubble looked like
you remember when you would click on the title of the thread and it would refresh the page you were looking at and not take you back to page one
you remember the glitch that made it so that when you clicked the "remove all items" button it would make you completely naked
you remember when they added the "subscribe to thread" button
you remember before gaia was all "bubbly"
when you had to check the announcements every day
you remember when you could search for the type of threads you were looking for
you remember when you could type in exactly what you were looking for and get it and not a bunch of other stuff
you remember that every topic you went to the banner at the top changed for where you were
you remember when every one was in a gaia family
you remember when your home page changed and when others could see your more personal information
you also remember when people would open up their personal life to you in the "personals" section in the forums
you remember when journals first came out
you remember before the quizzes when you would rarely see a poll
you remember when people would cound up rather then down
you remember when almost no one got hacked and no one pretended to have gotten hacked
you remember when you could trust other gaians and know that they would not rip you off
you remember before chatterbox had so many "post your pic" threads or "Girls in cages" type deals.
you remember server "sushi database"
