[primeradical]

I credit Neopets with the reason I have my degree and career.

There were many places on the site that let you inject your own HTML/CSS into the page to customize the appearance. I did this basically all through high school learning the in and outs of graphic design and front end development. It's the reason I knew really early on what I wanted to do and gave myself a clear goal.

A few years ago, I was able to get my old, old account back (2004). Some of my pages and code were still there. It was a treat to see them again! Oh and the actual pets too I guess...

[agnos]

Same here! My introduction to programming was trying to customize my Neopets shop, creating graphics in MS Paint, making little "blogs" to share with friends. In reminiscing, I just found this page https://www.neopets.com/shopblogs.phtml and wow I don't think it's changed at all in 20 years (spiffy text!). Haven't thought about Neopets in so long, it's bringing back so many fond memories.

BRB while I take a break from my mundane corporate software job to try and get back my old account/childhood. :')

[quest88]

Same, they even had tutorials for writing html and css! I referenced them often.