1999
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In 1999, the Pokémon franchise broke big in America. During this time, Chris started making Pokémon-themed sites, and even got into the PokéNews. According to Lucas, Chris started showing up at the Game Place around this time. Chris also created many of his "original" Pokémon cards this year for his Wall of Originals. They are listed below, as well as the other milestones of this year.
Events of 1999
February
- 24 February - Christian's 17th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, Chris evidently completes a drawing, "Bionic Over Autism." This drawing would later be included in Sonichu 6. This is also the day when Espanolic, one of Chris's more racist creations, was born.
March
- 13 March - Vegaton, the evolution of Espanolic, is born.
April
- 10 April - Drummor, a noisy Pokémon, is created by our autistic hero.
- 17 April - Christian creates the "original" Pokémon card for Blue, or Snubbull.
- 18 April - Togepi is made as a Pokémon card by Chris.
- 23 April - Mixed Up Farfetch'd and Missingno. are created as Pokémon Cards by Chris.
- 24 April - Luigi, everyone's favorite Nintendo character, is made into an "original" Pokémon Card by Chris, as well as Baniru, or Marrill, and Sonic the Hedgehog.
- 25 April - The domain for CWC's Pokésite 1 in the Pokémon Community is reserved, by someone going by the name Starplayer, for use by Chris.[1]
May
- 5 May - Bushwacked, a grass Pokémon, is made into a Pokémon Card by Chris.
July
- 3 July - Christian launches CWC's Pokésite 1.[2] Afterwards, he excitedly runs to his parents and demands that they sign the guestbook.
- 6 July - Koffingroo, a poisonous kangaroo Pokémon, is born.
- 16 July - A number of new "Pokémon" are created by Chris on this day, such as Cymbolic, a cymbal Pokémon, Flashbulb and Coonbulb, light bulb Pokémon, and Bugzapp, an insect Pokémon.
- 22 July - Christian launches CWC's Pokésite 2.
- 29 July - A friend signs Chris's guestbook and tells him that she hopes he continues learning HTML.
August
- August/September - Christian begins his senior year at Manchester High School.
- 15 August - Chris makes a Duelist magazine cover featuring his custom Pokémon cards.
- 17 August - Weeler and Hotfinish, vehicle Pokémon, are born.
- 18 August - Strongtire, a robot Pokémon, is born.
- 24 August - Compufrog, a Pokémon "made from computer programming", is born. Also, Chris edits his Snubbull card to its correct name.
- 25 August - Chris creates his PokéDex trainer card.
- 27 August - Chris updates his Marrill card to its correct name.
- 30 August - Chris makes Yoshi, ANOTHER copyrighted character, as a Pokémon.
September
- 22 September - Christian writes his own myth - "How the Pokemon came into Our Poke Balls". According to Chris, his English teacher thought it was great.[3]
- 26 September - Christian creates the Christian W. Chandler trainer card.
- 30 September - A friend, Mrs. Johnson, signs Chris's guestbook and says that she knows of "others" that would like his website and she will pass it on to them.
October
- 13 October - Christian launches the news section on his new Pokémon site.[4]
- 16 October - Christian is featured in PokéNews, dressed up as Ash.[5]
- 30 October - Christian publishes "How the Pokemon came into Our Poke Balls" on his Pokémon site.[6]
November
- 21 November - Pokémon Gold and Silver are released. First appearance of Sneasel,
- 22 November - Chris makes Plautistic, one of his only useless Pokémon.
- 25 November - Chris makes Donphan, an already existing Pokémon, into one of his "originals".
Unknown
- Cole goes to Kashmir.
- The Chandlers are allegedly harassed by a man named Jamie Dunn, who attempts to land Bob in prison.
