A few questions about the site~!

[Nightmares]

Does anyone know why "The Bell Tree" was chosen as the name, out of all the items from AC?

Also, when was this forum created?

 

[tae]

i think the bell tree sounds nice, since it was always fun to plant bell trees in AC. i'd always get excited burying 30k bells and having 90k when it would finally grow. but why they named the forum that i'm not sure. it probably just flowed nicely compared to other ideas. and it must go back a few years because wheres people who joined in like 2012 and probably sooner.

 

[jiny]

the forum was created in november of 2004. but i think it didn't launch to the public until December.

 

[Sholee]

It was founded early in 2005 by Jeremy. It stemmed from the original NSider forums run by the Nintendo Power Magazine, through a post in the Animal Crossing Board. The name came from a shop that Jeremy ran out of his house in Animal Crossing Gamecube. This also caused the name of the Bell Tree Fair: A massive sale. The original forums ran from nVision Free, via the off-topic board on NSider. Users used to have to be a member of NSider to join the Bell Tree.

The second Fair was around the time NSider shut down, which caused a massive influx of users to the Bell Tree. This also garnered a lot of support for the accityfolk Youtube channel, which helped to advertise.

Come 2008, the forum had moved to Zetaboards, and a few years later, they had moved to vBulletin after finding a way to transfer over all data.

The modern era started in 2011

Source: http://belltreeforums.wikia.com/wiki/Bell_Tree_Forums_Wiki

 

[Nightmares]

Source: http://belltreeforums.wikia.com/wiki/Bell_Tree_Forums_Wiki

Pretty interesting - thanks for that info!