I was hanging out with a friend on IRC one day and he linked me. We thought it was crazy hilarious. A few months later I joined the forums, became the hugest spammer to ever hit np, then reformed and somehow convinced Brian to make me a moderator.

There was no blackmail involved. No, really.

Best part is I met my soon-to-be-wife thanks to nuklearpower!

Lastly, gonna sticky this topic and make it permanent. It pops up often enough and people tend to like it. So, this topic will remain open until otherwise decided upon.

Well, seeing as it's the official thread now, I'll retell the story once more with extra quality.

'Twas in the second month of the year 2003 when these lines' writer was hit by, simultaneously, a wave of boredom and the realization that he could now download roms. Since the latter sounded like a good way of coping with the first, he set out into the internet's vasty planes.

Alas, all he found was shitty, popup-ridden sites, and he was near giving up his search when he came upon the Cult of Kefka. Hands down the best site there ever was for that kind of thing and sadly taken down since... but that's a story for another time. For now it shall be enough to say that the site's webmaster was a man of many wits and an outlook on the world pleasing to yours truly. Thus, he (yours truly, not the webmaster) decided to browse through the Cult's link section, where he discovered a site called nuklearpower.com. This site was highly praised and our hero therefore threw a glance on it.

The rest, as they say, is history. I went through the archives throughout the following week and eventually even joined the forum (in May '03). On top, 8BT was my first ever webcomic... but by far not the only one. I think I discovered about 90% of the webcomics I read now through either the site itself or the forum.

I started reading 8bit fairly early on and joined the forums around the same time as Shiney. My brother orginally linked me to it, and I was immediately transported back to my gradeschool nintendo days. Good times. :D

I was reading an old issue of EGM were I noticed where they advertised www.nuklearpower.com. I immediately walked to my computer and typed the address in. He was already on Episode 230-something, But I was hooked from then on.

I was hangin' around the MTG News Forums when a thread came up showing a reference to Magic: The Gathering at Bob and George. After reading its archive, I was hooked, and joined their forums.

Over the next few months, I read a few references to something called 8-bit Theater. Eventually, curiosity strung up my cat and threatened to hang it if I didn't go. I went through the B&G fanlinks, just in time to see the F-bomb. One more archive session later, I was hooked to this as well. Yay! :D

I was looking over somebody's shoulder when we were doing research in German class. He was reading an episode of Twinkin' Out.

A wizard did it! OK, it was a friend of mine that told me.

A friend showed me a bunch of the "Vs" movies. So, I decided to check out the comic, and have been hooked ever since.

For about a year now, I'd say, even though I just joined the forum recently.

I was still playing Everquest back then, and I was crawling along an Everquest board when I found a link to 8-bit theatre. I thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen, so I just kept coming back. Must have been about a year ago...

It's still one of the best sprite comics there is, so I keep looking. Yep.

I dunno...Internet?