People Online Going Outrageously Nuts
PogoNuts and this web domain was Created December 1999 when a bunch of friends who played games on Pogo.com were chatting one night and one of them jokingly mentioned the possibility of a site outside of the Pogo game site and age appropriate category room(s) room with their existing profiles could provide more information and share images and additional information about one another and perhaps chat when not inside of a game while playing.
AndDrea Cre8tive_Babe AKA 8 went right at that moment and registered the name she called PogoNuts and thus this site was born. Later on PogoNuts would become the hub for friends to meet from not just Pogo.com games website but from all over the internet.
A group was created on MSN and a virtual world was created where everything you did which involved some form of active participation would earn you virtual dollars called Pogo-Bucks (Pogo-Buck$) to spend on virtual or at least digital gifts one could get for themselves or for their friends to share within the group, use on personal web pages or send in emails. This became an active and addictive place for friends to hang out, collect Pogo-Bucks, learn to make PSP Siggies, backgrounds, blinkies and have fun long before there was MySpace, Facebook, Tumbler or any social networking website which few years later would be introduced to the internet world.
Darn why couldn't I have capitalized on the idea and been what Mark Zuckerberg is today with Facebook or Tom is to MySpace? The idea was already there but everything was being done manually and all the earned virtual bucks was being calculated and then allocated by just myself until a few of the PogoNutty friends decided to step up and help me out. Really it was a matter of my allowing others to help me out because for the longest time I had gotten so used to doing everything myself I had succumb to the idea that only I and I alone was capable of doing it and not being a let down to so many people who really truly seemed to rely on such a place for so many different but valid and heartfelt reasons.
Many years later MSN would close down their group feature and try to push their web traffic for group users to another platform on a completely different site called MyGroups. This new group website lacked the features required to continue on the basis for what was implemented and so the eventual group came to an end. Many of the people are still today the greatest of friends though we now keep in touch on Facebook. We still play games though some of us no longer care to on Pogo.com. They themselves had years before decided to create Club Pogo games and charge for their membership which allowed for more advertisements to be shown to those who were not paying members and less if any at all to those who paid. Facebook was no different other than its just completely free and advertising driven. No choice in the matter here, there are ads, you use the site big brother is watching and knows your every move. You play games your being watched and your clicks helping the site earn revenu regardless and there is no way to opt out other than to quit using the site. Years later many of us are still here.
So I always thought that one day PogoNuts would somehow make a return. It would be revived and in some fashion would be able to make a come back. Its been many years now almost 15 of them in fact and still today it sits dormant awaiting my creative ability. I have lacked reason without the need for what has already been created and works. Facebook has over taken the need for another social setting to give us PogoNuts what we need when it comes to outside communication from within Pogo.com. Thus I might just have to come up with something else for this website. after-all it has been in existence on the web since 1999.
AndDrea Cre8tive_Babe AKA 8 went right at that moment and registered the name she called PogoNuts and thus this site was born. Later on PogoNuts would become the hub for friends to meet from not just Pogo.com games website but from all over the internet.
A group was created on MSN and a virtual world was created where everything you did which involved some form of active participation would earn you virtual dollars called Pogo-Bucks (Pogo-Buck$) to spend on virtual or at least digital gifts one could get for themselves or for their friends to share within the group, use on personal web pages or send in emails. This became an active and addictive place for friends to hang out, collect Pogo-Bucks, learn to make PSP Siggies, backgrounds, blinkies and have fun long before there was MySpace, Facebook, Tumbler or any social networking website which few years later would be introduced to the internet world.
Darn why couldn't I have capitalized on the idea and been what Mark Zuckerberg is today with Facebook or Tom is to MySpace? The idea was already there but everything was being done manually and all the earned virtual bucks was being calculated and then allocated by just myself until a few of the PogoNutty friends decided to step up and help me out. Really it was a matter of my allowing others to help me out because for the longest time I had gotten so used to doing everything myself I had succumb to the idea that only I and I alone was capable of doing it and not being a let down to so many people who really truly seemed to rely on such a place for so many different but valid and heartfelt reasons.
Many years later MSN would close down their group feature and try to push their web traffic for group users to another platform on a completely different site called MyGroups. This new group website lacked the features required to continue on the basis for what was implemented and so the eventual group came to an end. Many of the people are still today the greatest of friends though we now keep in touch on Facebook. We still play games though some of us no longer care to on Pogo.com. They themselves had years before decided to create Club Pogo games and charge for their membership which allowed for more advertisements to be shown to those who were not paying members and less if any at all to those who paid. Facebook was no different other than its just completely free and advertising driven. No choice in the matter here, there are ads, you use the site big brother is watching and knows your every move. You play games your being watched and your clicks helping the site earn revenu regardless and there is no way to opt out other than to quit using the site. Years later many of us are still here.
So I always thought that one day PogoNuts would somehow make a return. It would be revived and in some fashion would be able to make a come back. Its been many years now almost 15 of them in fact and still today it sits dormant awaiting my creative ability. I have lacked reason without the need for what has already been created and works. Facebook has over taken the need for another social setting to give us PogoNuts what we need when it comes to outside communication from within Pogo.com. Thus I might just have to come up with something else for this website. after-all it has been in existence on the web since 1999.
