There's not really a lot to say here... elaboration will roll around at some point.
Basically it started around 1997 or so... Brian and William used to sit around in Algebra thinking about bad ideas. That sounds obscene. Anyways, being the numskulls they are, Brian, William, and the rest of their dumb friends entertained themselves. The primitive origins anything like today's site appeared on the internet in 2000, though it went back in some form or another to 1997.
More to come...