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Back in 1997, there were clusters of gamers who gathered around Yahoo! Clubs which offered a free message board, chatroom, and member list that promoted play by email games as well as play by chat games. Over time, Yahoo expanded and in late 1997 had chatrooms for all users to mingle within and in the different sections the players frequented they made their own rules. The first of these many groups was named simply "Kelindil's Site" which was run by a core group of players.

Thereafter, roleplaying in this manner was referred to as "text-based". In time, Kelindil's site failed and its management was taken over by another member of its "staff". Eventually as more players began to come to this realm they needed a name, and such was born Ayenee, a portmanteau of Arts and Entertainment, the category of Yahoo chat that the majority of roleplaying was done in. From thereafter Ayenee split into two separate predominant paths, one being Ayenee.org and its often considered rival, Ayenee.com. Many other realms spawned, and in later years the tensions between Ayenee.com and Ayenee.org began to fade.

However, other realms did exists in other areas of Yahoo chatting. For instance, in Teen was Tenaria, in A&E (now E&A) they had Ayenee, in Games was Eden, and so on and on. In 2005, Yahoo terminated the usage of user-created rooms, which ultimately lead to in-chat roleplaying fading from view. This meant a strong swing to webforums to pick up the slack. This change, while harmful to the Yahoo chat roleplaying community and the "unruled" Ayenee, helped the organized Ayenee sites because it allowed players to take refuge once more in another place- especially one they were familiar with.

By the year 2006, almost all Yahoo chatroom roleplaying had faded except for in Japanese Anime, Role Playing Games, and some lingering in Tenaria.

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