My first "friend" was some guy named Lenorado. He was the first person I ever played City Folk online with and I just remember he had a party and I won some cool items - I tried to message him again to see if he wanted to play, and he said yes, but then he disappeared. After that I remember back on the Zetaboards chat I found two more people, Caroline and Dustin, and I played online with them for a good month or so, until they disappeared, like most of the City Folk community.
After that, the GPX+ thread in the basement (or brewsters or off topic as it was called then) made me become pretty good friends with John/Serk102 (who I still speak with whenever he returns to the forum on his 6 monthly visits) and Nigel. And then somewhere along the line I became friends with Pally (legit have no idea how I became friends with her) and she was probably the first person I spoke to anything other than just game related stuff, and then just being friends with Pally I became friends with many others here.
So yeah those are probably my first friends, depending on how you define friend.
My first friend was cocoberry, we became good friends and we still are, I loved her cycling thread, and I started to like her thread a lot, we talked and we became good friends although we did have a conflict it wasn't bad, we are good friends
I met her in Re-Tail when she was giving away toy hammers over a year ago, and I decided to stay in her town after everyone left, and we got along really quickly. She's inactive now, but sometimes we talk about stuff through PMs.