Adam Powell

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'''Adam J. Powell''' (born December 20, 1976 in Wales) is the co-founder of [[Neopets]]. Jointly launched the website with [[Donna Williams]] on November 15, 1999, starting from an idea they had in 1997 while sitting in a dingy little computer room, possibly while eating kebabs or pizza.

Prior to founding Neopets, he was also involved in ''Shout! Advertising'', a UK-based advertising company which operated the third largest click-through program on the Internet by mid-1999. He also founded Powlex in March 1997, which designed and sold online banner advertising, and Netmagic in July 1999, which focused on web page design. Mr. Powell currently focuses on the technical and programming aspects of the Neopets website, and is still the head of the developers for the game.

Powell is mentioned in the hall of fame at his secondary school, Collingwood College, although he had a self-described "spectacular failure at university." He is also a former member of ''MENSA'' with an [[IQ]] of 174.

Powell has two cats in California called Sarah and Chani. In the United Kingdom he has four cats called Oscar, Daisy, Bill and Ben.

==On Neopets==
[[Image:sc11.gif|frame|left|Number Six during the Ski Lodge Murder Mystery.]]
Powell's Neopets account is [http://www.neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=borovan borovan], which is taken from a late-80s sketch on British Saturday morning TV featuring the comedians ''Trevor and Simon''. With this account, he enjoys the luxury of having 5 Neopets, +1 the maximum amount users are allowed to have.

References to Mr. Powell's craving for [[Asparagus]] exist throughout the Neopets website. The reason for this fascination, because he likes them or flaunts them because most people don't, is not known. All the same, if you type in "Asparagus" on the Neopets search engine, Adam will show up and say, "You can't have it, it's all MINE!" (also when users click on parts of certain games, small buttons pop up with a variation of this quote printed upon it). On Mr. Powell's birthday, every Neopet becomes asparagus! He also has 4 out of the 5 of his pets on his user account as Asparagus [[Chia]]s. The other is a Red [[Bori]], which is usually in its "sad" pose.

He is occasionally called '''Number Six''', a nickname taken from the 60s show ''The Prisoner'', and also has a [[Plushie]] named after him on the site. There is also a highly sought after [[Avatar]] related to him, to get this you must have exactly the same amount of [[Neopoint]]s as his account, viewable at the Neopets [http://www.neopets.com/aboutus.phtml About Us] page.

Adam visits the [[PinkPT|PPT Forum]] occasionally to interact with the users and keep tabs on how the populace view new features. He even sometimes lets the users see features before they are released! Often when he comes, he takes on board user suggestions on how to improve the website.

==Trivia==
*Adam's [[User Lookup]] for ''borovan'' used to have a link to [http://www.novaexpresscafe.com Nova Express Cafe].

==External Links==
*'''User Account:''' [http://www.neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=borovan borovan]
*'''Neopets Staff:''' [http://www.neopets.com/aboutus.phtml About Us]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/index.php?page=interview_adam PinkPT Interview with Powell]
*[http://www.collingwoodcollege.com/pages.php?fid=38&pid=235 Collingwood College biography]

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'''Neopoints''' are the currency used in [[Neopia]]. Neopoints can be gained through playing [[Game]]s, buying and selling [[Item]]s/stock, and [[Contest]]s.

Neopoints don't have 'physical' denominations, that is, they are not items like [[Dubloons]]. There have been several ways of representing neopoints attempted in various games and random events, the most sucessful of these being the ''swagbag''. These are usually labeled with their various ammounts (usually 10, 50, 100, 500, 750, or 5000) or occassionally a question mark signifying an unknown quantity. NaodW29-HTMLCommentStrip529589ca2244e3c300000001

In a [[Neopian Times]] editorial, it was stated that a 1 [[NP]] coin was small and gold.

==Trivia==
*Neopoints are a large part of [[Random Event]]s, where random happenings around Neopets give you a little or a lot of Neopoints...
**''Some messy person has spilled 10 NeoPoints on the floor on this page. You hastily pick them up!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 20 NeoPoints on the floor!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 50 NeoPoints on the floor!!!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 100 Neopoints on the floor!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 200 NeoPoints on the floor!!!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 500 NeoPoints on the floor!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 750 NeoPoints on the floor!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you just found 1000 NeoPoints on the floor!''
**''For a lost tooth, the tooth faerie gives you (random number of) NeoPoints!!!''
**''Congratulations, (username), you found the Secret Mystery Island Treasure of (random number of) Neopoints!!!!!!!''
**''A Ghost takes (random number of) Neopoints from you and puts it on the money tree!''
**''A Ghost cackles insanely and steals (random number of) Neopoints from you...''
**''The incessant mewing of a Mutant Kadoatie drives you completely mad, and you give its owner 5,000 Neopoints to take it away!''
**''Not been paying your bills eh? The Tax Beast arrives and takes 10% if your Neopoints away.''
**''Dr. Sloth has his "associates" take 20% of your Neopoints away to support his next Neopian invasion effort.''
**''The Bug Brothers jump up and steal 30 Neopoints!!''
**''Oh look, a delicious biscuit is on the floor. You bend down to pick it up, and spin around - somebody has stolen 115 NP from you while you were distracted!''
**''Icy Skeletons surround you and steal 68 Neopoints!''
**''All your Neopoints have been stolen, and all your items, and all your pets are sick, and your stocks have ... oh wait, it was just a horrible, horrible dream.''
*Winter Random Events...
**''You have stumbled upon the great Ice Treasure of (random number of) Neopoints!!!''
*Tyrannian Random Events...
**''A fungus ball is sitting on this page... and it EXPLODES!. You get confused and drop (random number of) Neopoints :(''
*On February 28, 2000, if a user had less than 100 NP at the end of the day, it would be raised back to 100. This has been

==External Links==
*'''Neopets TCG:''' [Bag of Neopoints], [Bag of Neopoints (2nd Print)]
*'''Help File:''' [http://www.neopets.com/help_search.phtml?help_id=6 Neopoints FAQ], [I am not getting Neopoints from the games!], [How to give someone their item and collect your NeoPoints], [What is the referral program?], [Is it true that Coltzans Shrine gives out 1 million Neopoints?], [How do you know if you have a winning lottery ticket?], [What does 100K mean?]

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