HISTORY
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MSPFANVENTURES
(as told by nix)
This article will be using extensive use of the Wayback Machine to give you glimpses of the past.
These links will not provide 100% accurate representations.

MS Paint Fan Adventures, more commonly referred to as MSPFA,
is a website created to allow authors the ability to easily "mirror" "forum adventures"
Let me explain what those two phrases mean.

Before there were "Fanventures" there were "Forum Adventures."
Forum Adventures were suggestion based comics, akin to early stories on MSPA, that were run on the (currently defunct) MSPA Forums.
The author would give the intro and other forum members would give suggestions.

Now unfortunately, these became increasingly hard to read as more and more suggestions would fill up an adventure's thread,
sometimes leading to dozens of pages cosisting purely of reader suggestions between comic updates.
The term "mirror" refers to the act of taking just the update panels and "mirroring" it onto it's own webpage.
This allowed readers to read just the adventure, and skip the old user suggestion posts.

- January 28th, 2010 -
Roomland, a "Forum Adventure" by the author Marty is mentioned on MS Paint Adventure's blog by Andrew Hussie.
note: this is a history on mspfa not mspa, if you don't know what mspa is and you're here i'm amazed
Being quite the popular adventure, and being the first and possibly only adventure mentioned via the blog, it's thread was huge.

A few users, including myself, offered their services to create a website for Roomland to make it easier to read.
Less than a week later, the race to mirror the website to it's own website was finished. Lolzorine, the original creator of MSPFA, linked to a brand new site.

- Febuary 3rd, 2010 -
"The MS Paint Forum Adventures mirroring site."
Hosted using free shared webspace, "The Mirror Site" was uploaded, with Roomland completely mirrored.
Originally consisting of a front page simply listing adventures and no user system, everyone was allowed to edit whatever was hosted on the site.
This was quickly condemned and the "editor" system was put in place a day later.

Very quickly Lolzorine added a homepage and user registration system.
For a long while any user could edit any adventure on the site, meaning editor privileges were locked for new users.
You had to ask to use the authoring tools basically. Luckily all you had to do was ask, and more or less things basically worked and no one abused the system.