How did I become OP? Oh man, we have to really go back a while, don't we?
It all started on the KoA. Just a server that had a Kingdom and such, nothing too advance but was pretty fun at the time. I was online one day, just hopping around, when I was talking to Church. He had mentioned someone built their own city and he thought we should build our own for fun. I agreed and tried to think what would be a cool city to build. I gave it a little thought and suggested we build Pallet Town and have that be our city. He humbly conquered that it was a swell idea. Quickly, we contemplated what if we built all the pokemon cities? Then I said "What if there was a pokemon server?". You can guess what happened from there. At the time, our Teamspeak probably had a total of six or so people (Now we have so many people, it's ridiculous to think that at one point it was that few people. I don't think it was even Teamspeak, I think it was mumble?), and I asked if anyone wanted to create a Pokemon server with me. As you can guess, they thought it was a neat idea, so we got Windows to host a serer and we began building. I threw together a rag-tag thread on the minecraft forums, hoping people would help out. Nightroado came quickly and said he would donate if and only if we would add MCMMO. Having no idea what the fuck that was but hearing the word "donation", considering the server had only been up for about a day, we hastily took the money.
This thread is really funny in the fact that a LOT of people got OP before most of you were here. Probably in the first week of the server, I promoted dozens of people to OP just for logging on and being nice, but they weren't considered admins. Then we limited it to donators. I love talking about the old days :P