People get from it exactly what they put into it; if they put no effort in, they will get nothing but acres of (often confusing) reading material. The more effort made to get involved, the juicier the results.

My first 'online' experience was on an old 386 DOS machine, connecting via a 2400 baud modem to a Bulletin Board System on dial-up.

I've been playing RPGs pretty much as soon as I could talk. I began
programming computers when I was eight. You'd think that with those two
states of being, I would have discovered online gaming sooner, but I
didn't.

I began my foray into online writing and roleplay in 1993, after spending a couple of years I like to refer to as a "prolonged lost weekend" on the Sierra Network.

Having run from several mu*s, Criseyde decided after 8 years to make an experimental sandbox with friend Rowan.