This domain, rainedrops.net, was purchased on December 2, 2004, despite the fact that I've been keeping an art site since 2001. The history... dates back to quite a while ago when I was still in high school. Some time in the year of 2001 one of my friends convinced me to help her with managing a website for her much beloved fandom, Gundam Wing. For those of you who were also fans, you may remember running across a site called "DemonWings".
Of course, as high school students we didn't exactly have the money to get any paid reliable hosting service, and the free services were continually giving us a hard time by limiting amount of space and so forth. Ultimately, my friend was rather fed up with it, and neither of us were free enough to do timely updates. Hence the site became buried in the graveyard.
However, having participated in managing that site, I became interested in running my own to display my artwork. It started off small and grew quite successful. This also linked me to several very good artists around the web and locally as well. Nonetheless, inspriation came to a grinding halt a two or three years ago and I didn't draw at all. Meanwhile my interests spread to other things, leading to the birth of 2 other sub-sites.
I have also gone through a couple domain name changes before settling with rainedrops.net. Again, as a poor student without income at the time, I settled for free hosting. Started off at barrysworld.net, then moved to wild-swans.net and lastely, rainedrops.net. I truly thank all those that have hosted my site(s).
