Scrapbook-Bytes opened in 2003 and that was the first major hub. I joined in april/may of that year.. so i've been involved for almost 15 years now :O I am pretty sure before that there was a small group on the two peas board. When scrapbook-bytes opened there were no digital stores at the time. We'd all make freebies and scrap with those and share them. The first designers would create collections of kits on CD's and mail them to customers! It was an entirely different world back then
Leeandra was around at ssbytes right when it opened so I think she probably knows about the earlier days? I think there might have been a mailing list or a yahoo group??