Haha I know what you mean!! Cuz I joined during one of the very last days of Beta.. and I had no idea what I was doing. So I don't think I bought much of anything! I think I had a few things here and there.. and I made some trades. GAHH I miss it too.
And I know! I found like "open VMK" and the creator sounded pretty legit about it... but then he got too busy so nothing happened. I haven't seen GPVMK/VMKRevisited I should go find it!
And AWW yes it does! You must have put that in your signature back in the day. I think I found disboards through one of the VMK forums. I honestly don't even remember which though!
Oh you MUST go find VMKRevisited! It's like the best thing in the world! You should go to www.gpvmk.com though because the creator had some great ideas and they're featured on there.
I check OpenVMK every day to see if I can sign up. Nothing yet though.
It's probably from 2007 or something. I can't even remember. I do remember, though, that my signature always was a jumbled spam of userbars and bouncing emotes.
But anywayyyyyyyyssss....
I was on Simple Disney things and I saw... http://www.flickr.com/photos/67907690@N03/6446896333/
(Sorry for just a link, but I couldn't get it here so I just uploaded it to flickr. By the way, like my name? )