December 13, 2011
A Little Bit of History (aka Why is My Name Riulyn?)
About 11 years ago, because I am sure that only an 8th-grader and someone who grew up in the age of “Shrines” as common names of websites, I launched “Riulyn’s RPG Sheet Music Shrine” on Geocities. Yes, Geocities RIP. The very first song I transcribed was “Mint’s Theme” from Tales of Phantasia. I was such a newbie at web formatting. My brother had a HTML book which I followed. I made a few links, there might have been a table, and I put some meta tags for RPG sheet music in hopes of search engines eventually picking up my website. A few months into this adventure, I was getting so much traffic that my site would be down almost every day because of “too much bandwidth being used”. I think that was if 10 people downloaded my stuff within a month or something. My sheet music were printed out and scanned in as GIFs. Not exactly as clean and space-saving as PDFs.
So what I was really going to talk about was how I got into this sheet music business. It was a lot of my brother downloading some from the internet, playing other people’s sheets, realizing there was a lack of sheets for songs I wanted them for, and realizing that I had a knack for transcription. I even put up some Chrono Cross midis on the web somewhere (probably under mizlen or aizel). So when I decided to make some, I also wanted to share them. You know, I wanted to be internet famous haha…
Riulyn (pronounced REE-YUU-LIN) was a name I chose out of the multiple names I was creating for stories I was writing. 8th grade was also the time I was writing stories and posting them on Fanfiction.Net. I am not going to tell you my usernames there because those stories are really bad 
. But anyway, Riulyn was the main character of a RPG-like story I was writing. It was a story involving elements, magic, soul-bonding to mythical creatures, etc. The story with Riulyn as the star never made it to the internet, thankfully, but the sequel is there in some form.
So yes, 8th grade and trying to be all cool with a fantasy name, and Riulyn as my web name was born. Too bad I did not use it for anything else I have done on the internet, because there are a few other people who have this name which I am sure I brought to the internet first. I mean, I couldn’t just be “Riulyn” on YouTube! I used to be somewhat scared of the people on the Internet, hence using a variety of different names on different websites. But now I sort of rue the fact that I don’t have a unified web presence; I’m slowly building one but I think it would be cool now for someone to recognize me from a forum as the person with that sheet music website. Especially since it seems for now that posting fan arrangements and transcriptions of videogame music won’t get me sued anytime soon… Yes, back in the early 2000s it was a real concern. If you were one of the very first to download sheet music from my site, you would know my actual name! But I don’t plan to put that back on my sheets now; that’s only left for those special few 
