Club Penguin History

Everyone knows about club penguin but does everyone no the interesting history behind it? Before Club Penguin their was a website called http://www.rocketsnail.com/. It had a chat room called penguin chat 3.(the original club penguin) After the new Club Penguin site came along (http://www.clubpenguin.com/) the original site (http://www.rocketsnail.com/) was closed down, so that everyone would visit Club Penguin instead.

Rocket snail was a great website especially considering that Penguin Chat 3 was free. There were members and no way of becoming a member. Now though on the new penguin site that everyone knows and loves you have to pay money to buy your penguins clothes, pets, accessories, etc..... So in my opinion I liked the old club penguin better. The only part I didn't like about Penguin Chat 3 was that there were no mini games to play and no online fake money to earn for your penguin. People could just find hidden items or get clothes. It was fun chatting with all the penguins. I also liked when it would snow on the old club penguin it would actually snow but they had not put that detail into to the new penguin website.

It was different from club penguin because the only different places you could go were the town which included the coffee shop, boiler room, gift shop and night club, and a place with just snow where penguins would hangout and chat and a construction site where their was a crane and if you clicked on the crane than your penguin would be wearing a construction hat.

The construction hat allowed the penguins to do the same thing that penguins do with construction hats in club penguin today. There was no upstairs to the night club. The night club did look similar though except that's where the band would play there was no DJ and their was no green puffle sitting on top of the speakers. The coffee shop had no mini games to play so penguins pretended to be waiters. They would serve coffee to other penguins. It was also a hangout spot.

There was also no map but their was a tool bar you pressed like in club penguin today where you can type sentences to say to other penguins or emotions or evan jokes. It looked much different though. There was also a button to make the tool bar smaller where you would have the colors to choose what color your penguin is.

There is a rumor going around that you can become a ninja in the new club penguin, that is not true. How the rumor got started was on penguin chat 3 their was a secret way (trick) to become a ninja. When a penguin became a ninja they turned black and wore the cool ninja outfit a feature I liked was that your penguin could turn almost all invisible. The Club Penguin creators decided to make secret agents instead of ninjas on the new club penguin. On the old penguin chat 3 their were no missions, and no secret agents, and no tour guides. So that's one good thing about the new Club Penguin.

As for the Gift shop, if you tried walking into it, you’d be transported to a page in Rocketsnail.com where you could buy merchandise. (online store where you had to pay real money) So I was glad when they made the gift shop in club penguin a real place that penguins could go to, to chat and buy stuff.

Penguin Chat 3 was just a chat room. In the summer of 2005 The rocket snail creators announced that there was going to be a new and different Penguin Chat 3 called Club Penguin. Soon after Club Penguin began to be built Penguin Chat 3 was closed down forever. In October/November there was a Beta Tester Part, the first CP Party ever. Where some people could make penguins and play for a free membership for only a month to test out the new website. It was cool though because the Beta Testers actually got to keep their party hat they received from the first club penguin party ever and they got to keep about 2000 coins. So there is some interesting history on club penguin.