Authors Note: The following are some of the opening passages from what would have become "The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Virtual WWE" a full and concise history of VWWE. They form the origins of E-Feds almost exactly eight years ago as best i understand them.

As long as there has been sports, there has been fantasy, dream scenarios and matches. While the average man in the street dreams of the bright lights and glamor of his favorite sports teams, the big stadiums and moments, millions will fill online fantasy leagues of football, soccer, baseball... and professional wrestling.

Originally played via mail, fantasy wrestling exploded upon the internet boom of the 1990s. Created companies, characters, real companies and characters, every possible scenario was created and played out on numerous Internet message boards and forums, hundreds of Electronic Federations or more popularly E-Feds, came and went. Wrestling fans finally had the chance to fulfill a little of their dreams.

This is the tale of one such E-Fed and one community in particular, an E-Fed that some may call the Worldwide Leader in the genre, a company that has stood the test of time to last seven years and counting when most E-Feds last a matter of weeks, it is a name known and loved by many - Virtual World Wrestling Entertainment, better known maybe as VWWE.

Over those seven years, VWWE seen hundreds of members pass through it's doors and leave in so many different circumstances, it's members have grown from boys to men, their lives have been shared with their colleages, babies have been born, marriages held and in one case, two members ending up in a relationship of their own.

VWWE has provoked reactions from anger and fury to happiness and ecstasy, the tears have been numerous but so has the laughter. However if there's one emotion synonymous with VWWE.. it's passion. The passion that runs through WWE courses through the very foundations of their VWWE namesake, the love of wrestling kept these people together, kept the owners at the helm and helped the company survive and become the most successful E-Fed of all time.

This is their story, the story of the elite few, the story of the reality and the fantasy... and the story of one very special company....

2001: The World is Changed

September 11, 2001, a date that will forever be remembered and never forgotten. On that American morning terrorists hijacked four aircraft, crashing them into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington DC and a Pennsylvania field. It was an incident that had a profound effect on the entire World including that of professional wrestling, one wrestling community on WAP enabled cellphones and an individual 3000 miles away watching events unfold in a college computer room.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) was designed to be the first version of the internet on cellphones, debuting in 1999 with the popular Nokia 7250, the medium was considered an almost immediate failure, due largely to overhyping something later called "teletext on your phone". However, a small group of individuals seemed to embrace the concept and make the most of it, one such individual was Simon Parkhouse.

Parkhouse, a wrestling enthusiast, created WapWWF in early 2001, the mediums first wrestling news site, styled very much in the vain of WrestleZone.com and Rajah, these were the sites from which most of WapWWF's news was cut and pasted. The site was simple, created easily on a sitebuilding site by the name of WapJag and later moved to a similar utility named Tagtag, it would never win site of the year but by being the only WWF's only site on WAP, the site quickly gained a large following and it's chatrooms were regularly overflowing. It was here that WAP's first wrestling community was born and from here that E-Fed's on WAP would soon spring.

Over the summer, names such as both Jons (Rhyno and Silent Assassin), Dani, Jen, Sara, Graeme(Tommy Dreamer/Ryan Simmons), Mark (Dr.S), Fi (Rogue) and others all arrived along with notable future nuisences such as Mr Hogan and Mr Shaw. On September 11, these nuisances decided to insult the tragedy unfolding before the World, an event which offended the WapWWF Chat members enough to form an alliance, one of the first such alliances in the community - Team Bring It (TBI), a name taken from the WWF's current Invasion angle. The leader of TBI? a man who would become instrumental in the future of the community - Rhyno. Already the seeds of the coming months were being sown, Rhyno taking the leadership position he would follow through with the FWC E-Fed just a few months later. Meanwhile, the man who would become the nemesis of Rhyno for the majority of the next eight years, Mick, sat watching in horror the events unfolding on his TV. Just a few weeks later, Mick would pick up his cellphone and searching for WWF news, he'd stumble across WapWWF, never using the chatroom and only using the site he never became one of the WapWWF users or original E-Fed pioneers, the fateful moment Mick discovered Feds not coming for another two months at the dawn of the new year.

Rhyno and Mick's time would have to wait for now however as before that would come another individual - Diddy. In November 2001, Diddy formed WAP's first ever E-Fed - WWW, World Wap Wrestling. Enlisting WapWWF members such as Dr.S, Kohl, Rhyno, Silent Assassin and Banshee, WWW used a system that is unique to WAP E-Feds - a guessing system, it is the one, with slight modification, still in use today in VWWE.

WWW was a success, although a shockingly poor standard by todays comparison, the first company of it's kind drew plaudits from it's members.. and for the first time, a second chatroom sprung up. However, one individual had machinations in mind and Rhyno soon formed his own breakaway E-Fed under the same rules.... FWC or Fantasy Wrestling Championship.

FWC almost immediately had the advantage, Rhyno was a better writer, his position in WapWWF and TBI allowed him to recruit many more people and soon WWW stars such as Coops and Silent Assassin began to defect, FWC had become the number one E-Fed on WAP with ease.

All the stones were in place, but destiny had one more hand to play and in early 2002, while surfing WapWWF Mick stumbled across a link to a site called Wrestlenation left in one of WapWWFs guestbooks, the site was a fan site for wrestling made by Mark aka Dr.S.... with a section all about something called E-Feds, WWW and FWC. Intrigued as to what an E-Fed actually was, Mick clicked on the link to WWW..... and so was born a dynasty and an icon.