Dan Harmon, as I recall. Wrote it in installments over a short period of time. I was able to get all of them together and keep a copy on a site I have control of.
All of the names you see in the story are past or present forum ‘resident’s’.
I looked at the forum in the old format, but I did not join until late 2002. However, my profile says that I have been logged on since the middle of 2006. Does that count for anything? [8D]
December 2001, and the old “tree” system. Remember those stars and the “on line parties” that came with getting new ones. Ah, yes, and MO who kept comming back in more guises that anyone thought possible. What a PEST.