Hello Sweet Puhekupla Readers,

(1) So, I introduced myself and now I have a story to write. You all know who the 2 persons were who made Sulake, right? If not, then you’ll better be ashamed! Well, it all started with Aapo Kyrölä (Aapo) and Sampo Karjalainen (Apparatus) the 2 Co-Founders of Sulake. Habbo (Former: Hotelli Kultakala) was pre-born in 1999, as a hobby project by Sampo and Aapo. This was called Mobiles Disco, a virtual chat room designed for a Finnish band. After having been contracted to design a virtual game for Elisa (Finnish ISP), they were contracted for another project. So, Sulake Labs was born on 1 May 2000. And this is, where my story starts. (Ouch I can feel the excitement of you all!)

(2) So, we have had May 2000 (Aapo & Apparatus created Sulake Labs Oy & ArmasK joined), June 2000 (Drken popped in). Nothing very special happened during July 2000. Then in Augustus 2000 Hotelli Kultaka opened, in beta version. On september 2000 the Beta was over, and every user could join. The users really spreaded trough the Hotel that time And Aapo, Apparatus, ArmasK, Drken could barely deal it. Suddenly it was no enegery-drink time anymore. In october 2000 they made the decision to hire 3 more people. Toto, Retiisi & Opium were born. Currently Toto and Retiisi are well-known in the Habbo World, where Opium is totally forgot and was mentioned nowhere.

(3) So here we are, on 19 October 2000 - Drken, ArmasK, Aapo & Apparatus came back from Brazil. Directly followed to hire 3 new persons - Toto, Retiisi & Opium. After that, the guys were building the hotel, adding new features and on 16 January 2001 they launched Habbo UK Ltd in beta version. (This was the first time the name "Habbo" showed up). On 24 January 2001 Habbo UK went open for the public, under the command of Apparatus (Seems to be the Hotel Manager) & Cindy (Anne Isaksson) the Community Manager. After the launch it went hard with the Hotels, so Sulake decided to hire more persons. Mikko Väyrynen, Tuulikki Uotila, Timo Ahde, Sulka Haro were hired in February 2001.

*Sulake Employee #01: Aapo (May 2000 - Sulake Employee #02: Apparatus (May 2000 - Sulake Employee #03: ArmasK (May 2000 - Sulake Employee #04: Drken (Jun 2000 - Sulake Employee #05: Toto (Oct 2000 - Sulake Employee #06: Retiisi (Oct 2000 - Sulake Employee #07: Opium (Oct 2000 - Sulake Employee #08: Laiskimus Sulake Employee #09: Tuu (Feb 2001 - Sulake Employee #10: Painimies (Feb 2001 - Sulake Employee #11: Sulka (Feb 2001 - Sulake Employee #12: Muhmi (Mar 2001 - Sulake Employee #13: WhatWasit (Mar 2001 - *

So, we are getting into March 2001 now. The constantly growing ammounts of Habbo's forced Sulake to hire people, as they did last month. But it's not over! They hired another 2 persons. Aapo, who was the only technician programmer (along with Sulka last month) could not handle it anymore. Muhmi & WhatWasit were hired, both as Programmers/Technologist. Keeping up the servers, making the client et cetera. But Habbo got trouble too.. Hackers popped in. Scripting, Banning, Hacking and all that stuff were happening.

[12] Muhmi Muhmi, aka Roope Kangas is an very unknown Sulake Staff. There is nothing known about his Habbo Period. He started in March 2001 as an Lingo Programmer, and left already 1 year later - on March 2002. Also nobody seems to have known "Muhmi" inside the hotel. Probably he did not like the work when he left Sulake that soon. Also could not get his whole avatar, was already happy I got some pieces.

[13] WhatWasit WhatWasit, aka Mikko Köykka is a well-known Sulakestaff. He's usually the first ever made Habbo in the hotel, recognized by his room "kämp". Which is the same on every hotel. WhatWasit started working as an Technologist for Sulake in March 2001, moved up to Java Developer and ended his work with Senior Java Developer. WhatWasit left the company in April 2007. Quote (from 2006): "A couple of years ago a major hacking boom occured right in the middle of summer holidays. (…) to solve this problem, I decided to play the role of a hacker. Because the coolest hacker is the one, who figures something out that others haven't yet, I introduced myself doing something never seen before. I went to hang out among other hackers and confused them by changing the games settings. Popularity was a given and soon enough I got to hear how hackers work and where their tricks are based on. As I fixed the holes, I revealed myself, and many surprised hackers switched from bad to good. After all most hacking was done just to get some attention and not actually disturb anyone." This was all under the name 'MikkoTheBoy'. *- Question from an old interview; Which work of yours would you like to introduce to habbo’s?

• I’ll introduce the updating system of the Hotel. Years ago we had a collection of simple web pages, from which we could see what was happening in the Hotel. New pages were born as the Hotel’s expanded. Eventually I, with Sulka, collected all these pages into one solid updating system to the use of all Hotel’s and we developed some new tools as well. Now the system includes lots of different statistics and items, to modify, for example, avatar-information, room maps, Hubu (Info bus), the catalogue and even the speech of bots. It also has “ekstranet” (extranet?), which the moderators use to answer users help calls – and plenty of other things. Nowadays the updating system is as a program nearly as big as Habbo itself! *

That was it for this time. Some Habbo's asked me about Painimies Balls. We did some investigation today. The hidden message can be found in one of the rooms that is designed by Painimies (thats a fact). Those rooms are commonly recognized by a tiny ball. It includes these rooms: Hallway II - I, Hallway II - II, Hallway II - IV, Hallway II - VI, BB2 Arena 1, BB2 Arena 2, Picknick Garden, Lido I, Lido II, Library, Lobby II, Lobby III, Sun Terrace, Oriëntal Park I & Night at the Museum 2. And probably also: HC Room II, HC Room Orange II, HC Room Halloween II, Hotel Kitchen, Snowstorm Arena I, Snowstorm Arena II, Snowstorm Arena VI, Oriëntal Park II, Cheetos Promotions, Den (latest version) & Den (old version).

We also figured out that armasK made the habbo duck. He also made a habbo duck in real, with some "string breads". We can assume that every public space with a 'duck' is made by armasK. So; BB2 Arena 3, Lido I, Dusty Lounge, Snowstorm Arena III & Sunset Cafe. And he probably made Zen Garden II & Den (oldest). And the Ice Cafe Braincrashers Party & Schoolyard are made by Tursake. The Oldskool Room I is probably designed by Apparatus. And the Australian Hotelview is designed by Retiisi.

Love,

Yucca

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