So I guess I'll start this off with the same idea I started off my longer online history page with: I didn't start with Neopets. Haha, that scared you, right? XD
Anyways, with me, it started off with a group blog I had with my friends called Exonerate. Using Movable Type meant I didn't need to learn any of this HTML stuff, which I was completely fine with at the beginning. Eventually, though, I yearned to have my own site separate from Exonerate, and so I was directed to Lissa Explains (though I've heard you shouldn't try learning through that site anymore :P) by my friends Rosa and Drea in my n00b efforts to learn how to make a site.
I made accounts at both DiaryLand and Pitas to test the little HTML that I knew, eventually moving my personal site over to my GeoCities account by calling my DiaryLand entries to my site using an iframe. After a few months, I figured out how to use CuteFTP and started applying for subdomain hosting at others' personal domains. In the end, I went with my friend Rosa's hosting offer to me, and I moved into her then domain Indiglow.org with my site, Psychedelic Kaleidoscope (horrible horrible name), in tow.
A couple of months later, I switched hosts and moved somewhere else to escape my classmates' prying eyes. To mark the change, I renamed my site to Antigravity (after an Incubus song, naturally). It did not work out with my new host, however (you can read why at the long, history book version), and after a month she decided to delete my site. And so Ellie came to save me in my wretched state by offering to host my site, not caring whether I can set the whole thing up in two days or two months. <3 I settled into Ellie's then domain, Vanilla-Twist.org, nicely until my dad bought me this domain in April of 2004.