Actually, my start to roleplaying is… maybe a bit embarrassing? And weird. Definitely weird. I first started roleplaying on a website called Moviestarplanet. It was very basic roleplaying and it was done on the forums. I remember a thread would be made, sometimes just ‘High School RP’ and then about 5 users with a ‘sign up form’ like this:
Name: Ella
Personality: Shy
Looks: Brown hair, blue eyes
Or sometimes you made an ‘artbook’ with characters and said ‘see my artbook’ for character information. Here are a few of my ‘charecters’ from way back in the day haha: (faceclaims was not a word in my vocabulary at that time)
Then I found the Episode forums (around end of 2016) I was very excited to see they had roleplays. An embarrassing fact was that I saw the slides to all the faceclaims, and I thought I had to pick one of the characters I had to roleplay as. With the help of google slides that save every faceclaims slide I’ve ever opened, the first roleplay I ever joined on the Episode forums was ‘Beyond The Kingdom’ and I remember @TheBluGeek was in it too 
That was a very unnecessarily long post. Remind me to learn how to get to the point.