I haven't played as long as the other people on SL, but it has been about a year so far. I do remember when the secret jounin rooms used to be open, the mission HQ wasn't a spawning pool for beggars, and Lebis's title was Aeong, or something like that. Lol, and at one point Abyss was some futurama santa claus title thing or something. Oh yeah, that was also before he went waaaay out of reach for pvp'ing. I think I beat him once before dying at least 5 times and giving up.
Hm... the armor and weapons were fixed prices with the max at 10,350. Nobody used special characters either in their titles, and I think wutthead was one of the first by having the §onic jutsu title, and I was Ω purple. I used to get gems from ice cream sundaes instead of getting fat.
And then there was tehbeastjeffsays as well as the killing spree of KawazoeTakumi.