Next to that we also had a site dedicated to adventures and a site dedicated to MMORPGs. The best known ones were the Gothic and Arx Fatalis sites. Any game of some substance had its own hosted site at RPGDot. This allowed us to create different skins, which we used a lot for the hosted sites we had, of which there were plenty. The year after that I redesigned the whole thing and separated the controller part from the view part. This actually meant that we only had one design and it would be really problematic to make design changes to it, but it was working. This first version was written in PHP, but had the layout embedded in the PHP files. I don't even recall what we used for that, but it wasn't that great, so in 2001, a guy named Stijn, Garrett and me worked on creating a new design from scratch creating our own CMS. I'm not sure when exactly, but at some point in 2000, Rendelius was looking for people to post news for RPGDot and I applied for that position, finding myself posting news after that. At the time I was operating The Locus Inn, which was focusing on Infinity Engine games (some more and some less in detail). Next to running RPGDot, Rendelius was also running a hosting service on BlinkingDot, where people could get their site hosted for free, by placing some ads on their site. Myrthos: Here is some of my history with RPGDot and the start of RPGWatch. The RPGWatch is 15 years old these days! The successor of RPGDot started in October 2006 and here's Myrthos' story of the beginning.