oooo. my turn!
I was 12 or something and I had been into RPing for two whole years (wow) It was at the time when the 'so-and-so would like to add you as a contact' on MSN looked like scary pop-up stuff so I always declined. I have no idea how I got to the site I did. It was some odd site about two castes and one was all rainbow-ie hair and the others were fair and prettyful.
Anyway, I found SotE and the 'we'd like to welcome: name, name, name, name.' to the site thing was what made me join. When you had to fill out a sheet thing and submit your character and Rhi did strange strange things with it before welcoming you on the main page.
It seemed lax, too, since at that point I only visited my dad once every two weeks for a weekend and he was the parent with the internet.
It was big and scary, I recall playing with someone named Bloodwolf (not here anymore, which is good ) i recall going " 8D Homg, I need to make so-and-so a girlfriend " to a few of Tally's characters, probably a few of Rhi's too. Then I poofed for a long while.
THen I found a picture I drew and went " HOMG D8 I FORGOT ABOUT SoTE" and I found it again 8D Amazingly, the exact same why I found it the first time, going through a maze of game advertisements.