I think I just liked the place and people I knew at school went there so I just wanted to stick with it. Plus honestly like Ralph, @Truami, and @Mogwai were like computer nerd heroes to me very quickly and I wanted to learn all I could from them (mostly ended up being Ralph who would show me things on AIM like the PHP code for the main site ). I think my desire to just learn shit won out.
Also I wasn't really part of any kind of real community before this place. Quickly learned of so many more memes, so many more tech things, and all that. I was in a place where people with more internet knowhow would just drop shit all over the place for me to figure out. I was so fucking dorky because I'd never gone through all the shit you guys went through in the like 2000-2003 phase and it was probably like looking back at a stupid mirror of yourselves with disgust. "Ugh I used to be like that?"