The Magicball Network (MBN for short) came forth from a site called "the World of Little Big Adventure" (still mirrored on the MBN). It all started around the first quarter of 1997, that's when Michiel Hendriks (a.k.a. El Muerte, the KILLER back then) found a very active LBA forum hosted on a now defunct site InsideTheWeb. Michiel was an LBA fan since he first read a review about it in the March 1995 issue of a Dutch gaming magazine "Power Unlimited". It was not until 1997 until he gained access to the internet and found the InsideTheWeb forum. In the summer of 1997 Michiel used a lot of spare time to learn HTML and create the first version of the World of LBA. The site was well received by the other visitors of the InsideTheWeb forum and quickly grew to a very large website with a lot of content, too much to have it hosted by a single free website hoster.

At the end of 1999 Michiel went to the university where he was granted a stable internet connection with enough bandwidth. Ideas came up to completely revamp the old World of LBA. With community effort a new name came up: the Magicball Network. As soon as Michiel bought a new computer to act as server the work started to create the first version of the MBN.

Things started to look grimm on the InsideTheWeb forum. The original forum was often attacked by spammers. This resulted in the new forums on InsideTheWeb. But this didn't last long since InsideTheWeb was closing it's doors. Before InsideTheWeb finally closed it's doors the first place holder for the MBN was online and a temporary forum was created on the site. This was somewhere around the summer of 2000. At october 2000 the temporary forum was replaced with the current one. Just in time to announce it on the InsideTheWeb forums before they disappeared from the internet. A little while later Michiel released version 2 of the MBN, in the mean time he learned to use PHP to create dynamic websites. A lot of the old InsideTheWeb visitors moved to the new MBN forum a new members joined. This was to become the new home of the LBA community.