Name the place you first began roleplaying.

[FantasyChic]

I've told this story a lot, but I started RPing when I was playing the MMO City of Heroes. I saw people talking IC and I asked what they were doing. They told me and I joined, eventually coming to like it. After that, I played other MMOs and RPd in them, but often the community was too chaotic and bad so I gave it up for a time. The RP bug bit me and I eventually found my way on to here.

[vancexentan]

The first place I technically was roleplaying in was probably runescape though it unknowingly. For real probably youtube. I kind of regret my youtube roleplaying days for a number of reasons.

[Ruby]

Wish I was cool, but, uh...

The Guild.

[Multifarious]

Same RP that I've been involved with for 3+ years now. It used to be a speed-posting RP (balanced by the fact that it heavily involves the forbidden art of one-liners, but I digress), but it's moved on and slowed down over the years as we all got older and more busy. I'm just happy it's still kickin'.

[Patches]

Well I wrote a lot when I was little and made a lot of OCs, but I never really roleplayed until I was in highschool. That was about 7 years ago? Maybe a bit less or more. But the first place I really started roleplaying is a bit embarrassing.
Ponychan.
I started roleplaying on a imageboard from My Little Pony. I stayed there since they had a dedicated /rp/ board even when I stopped watching the show mid-season 2, because not many sites had the format.
I have since been getting into moving here.

[Veradana]

My earliest rps were on Neopets starting roughly 10 years ago. Once neopets rps started dying off, I hovered around gaia and email based 1x1s, but never really settled anywhere and kept getting dropped with no warning or response on my emails. At this point I also rp a bit on rpNation. It doesn't really help that I can be too fussy when it comes to plots that I want to join.

[Crimmy]

Serebiiforums' RPG Forum back in 2005.

I haven't been on there for over a year now, though.

[Celaira]

I've been writing stories for a long time. When I started RP'ing, I was 11, and it was on an anime site where I watched Naruto 'cause I didn't know about subs yet. It was called DubbedAnime, doesn't exist anymore, though. The site had a chatango chat where a lot of people RP'ed. Later on when I made a friend in middle school we started RP'ing in notebooks as if it was a play, and also via phone calls/just talking about what our characters were doing.

[Doug]

Minecraft roleplay servers, of all things. I know, say as you will, it definitely shows I'm somewhere on the spectrum, but that's where I got my kicks from. dropped the game shortly afterwards, but kept the intrigue of roleplaying. Actual first eloquent roleplays took place here in the guild. I have created five accounts on this site already, just because I enjoy writing as different people. Have been here actually for well over a year. A meta-roleplay if you will, eh?

[Alice]

About 15 years or so ago and it was a Final Fantasy crossover role play with FF7-10 characters.

It was advertised through live journal or something similar and later on free made forum. It didn't last that long, but then I found a forum soon after and I discovered M/M role playing and fanfiction. haha It was a fun time and nostalgic thinking back on it, but things do not last forever and the forum eventually shut down.

I've grown so much since those days.

[Mistiel]

Legends of Alagaesia. 'Twas a Proboards forum. I don't count it as advertising since the site's been dead for literally over a decade and the owner for far longer than that. But by all means, feel free to read through all the posts of my adolescence. I was Alagorn (BTW that name is my (favorite) brand of bra. You could've gone your entire lives without knowing this information c: ). Many Bothans died to bring you this inf...okay I'm done rambling.

/me nuzzles Mahz affectionately

[Song Book]

I started rping on the subforums of planet Minecraft. Hehe that was a long time ago when I first got the game. So many school rp's I'm pretty sure one of mine migrated here and that started me onto these types of sights.

[Kassarock]

I did it a lot in video games and just y'know... *cough*by-myself-on-my-own*cough* ... as a kid. But the first place I started play-by-post role playing online was here, waaaaaaay back in the heady days of 2009.

[Innue]

Combination of Yahoo Chat rooms and a well known forum that I can't remember the name of.

EDIT: Many... many... many years ago.

[Zahir]

Yahoo chat rooms, Chatzy and a few games.

[VenusSTAR]

Ooh man... back when MSN rooms were great. You could create your own... such good times. Then I migrated over to Yahoo! rooms when MSN shut down. All the while me and a few friends would constantly write up posts to one another in note form at school.

[vancexentan]

Edit: Forgot I already posted my response here ignore this sorry.