I just finished reading Tom Fulp's Bio page and the NewGrounds History page.
I've been a regular fan of NewGrounds since a friend introduced me to it during English Composition class at the local community college back in the summer of 2002. I had no idea about what was going on behind this site at the time. I would only check NewGrounds out at college, because I didn't want anyone at home to see the porn banners.
I've been checking out the content on a regular basis (weekly sometimes, daily most of the time) since the beginning. Yet, I never voted on a single submission. Never made a comment, good or bad. Never participated in any way with the NG community. Until recently that is...

About a year ago, my good friend started to teach me basic ActionScripting. I took to it like a duck to water. Very soon I was a better programmer then he was and we started to partner together with him as the designer and me as the developer. We've been working together ever since.

A few months ago I finally decided that I just HAD to comment on this one shitty flash game and so I made a profile. It wasn't long before I was commenting on most movies and games that I viewed, but still it was only in the last 2 weeks that I began voting.

I have yet to submit any of my own flash work, but I'm slowly coming to that "flash" point where I hope to really start getting involved in the best way.