Forum History

[Ryth]

This is pretty much tell every site you've been to, your username there and whatnot. Well this is my history.

I was forum-born in a back-water poorly put together forum called Dragon Knights where people were mean and for some reason could not get banned and even steal identies I think, my name there was Col (don't ask where the name came from) I posted around and well people made fun of my name one person made a thread making fun of me for it. It was deleted the head of the site was a nice guy but knew nothing of making a good site, I of course fought back. But it didn't help. I left soon after joining. You think I would think they all suck and give up. Then I ran into the old 1Up.com unfortunately some of my Dragon Knight behavior carried on to 1Up and did some stupid crap I regret. I was SephiDante and half way before I joined I went to the old Shining Force Central. I was Max_Chaotic there by the time I had around 530 posts on 1Up and 330 posts on SFC they both moved and for some reason I never got the registration e-mail from the new ones when I joined which annoyed me. Even though no one at SFC like FF I still liked it there. I never had forum friends before. Which then looking for a new site ran into here. I signed up as Sephiroth. of course and met my first online friend Ratiasu (Dixie at the time) and well I'm still here. Made some new friends and well some guy named The Dahaka PMed me telling me about his site. Life of Midgar. I signed up as Sephiroth. again and met more friends like Shadow Wolf and Angel (you don't know them of course) then after a while I stayed at those two site then my friend Shadow Wolf had her own site Freeib or something and I joined as Sieg and stayed there even today though the site is down right now. So I postewd here and at LOM and joined three forums during it Penny Arcade, phpbbforfree which was a graveyard as Sieg, and one place I forgot the link to :riiight: then my friend Angel told me about her site which I joined and recently became a mod there recently and well here I am.

[Harvest Moon]

Harvest Moon
A long-time forum goer of many differant message boards, some good, some bad. (Mostly bad..) Harvest Moon watched in horror as many of boards he registerd at completely sucked and the few he was able to post at with regular replies were more tight about rules then he wanted to deal with. (I respect those admins because that's why their forum isn't crap. But i'm neutral evil leaning towards chaotic damnit! :p ) Eventualy Harvest Moon gave up his old name "Big Evil" and took on the guise of what he was going to name his Pagan store one day. Little did he know this was also the name one of his fangirls knew all too well by some stupid rpg that she's addicted too like crack..

Harvest Moon can be found at gaia under "shadowjim" who was a minion of his from past and gave him his account. No-one at gaia has seemed to notice..[/i]

[Del Murder]

I went to this one, was the Spam Knight, now a Cid's Knight, and always an enforcer of good.

[rubah]

I began my life on a rather large (and now proven to be inherently evil) chat+board system (although I never ventured past the chat rooms for anything but the site-builder stuff) that was talkcity. I had about a million names thereX.x;; Please don't pass judgement on them, I beg of you. the choice ones I remember are: senatorkitten, BriaKitten, BlackestWhite (grey?), Ruby_Lagreglo_Lapiz, and Jume. X.x;

Then I found WOFS. It was a board from kellilla.com (and is now permanently dead, I think;_;) Watch Out For Snakes shaped my foruming. I never registered for the exboard (and I still haven't. Because exboard is almost as inherently evil as talkcity) but when I crept out of lurkerdom, I posted as Jume.

About the same time, I was delving face first into harry potter rpgs. there was expage.com/padfootspage or something like that. I was Ruby Lapiz, and when the owner of that particular rpg decided to delve back into the depths that is real life, it was transferred to someone else, who decided to thread it back into an rpg that one of *her* friends was making. And because insidetheweb, which hosting that forum was dying on march 7th (or was it 9th), I allowed myself to be herded to magichogwarts.com. MH has had a lot of turmoil, but somehow after four years it's still crawling by. Probably not for much longer, but you know how that goes.

As WOFS died the first time, I found myself in possession of a Livejournal shared with a couple of other people (nari has her own now, and meekah almost never posts, so it's mine. . .) This was a way to keep in touch with the WOFSers, and it has worked. Several of them still float around and post and occaisionally comment.

One thing that MH helped spawn was my dolling habit. Because of this, eventually I joined a few dolling forums. The Realm (realmers.net) is the one I've posted the most at (although that's still very few)

More importantly, MH and its IRC channel spawned my IRC addiction. yey.

But anyways, as MH died, I felt the need to find other forums to satiate my need to read posts, so I made my way to brightshinything.net when a friend from the realm posted it on her LJ. <3 BST.

When Charli decided to go her own way, I hesitantly followed her, and post occaisionally at la dolce, at thalea.com/dolce. Both of those names were Jume.

A long time after my friend first showed me the wonder that is final fantasy, I decided to find a forum for it, when the other people quit posting in the thread in the video game section of BST, so I looked for a forum for that purpose. EoFF was the second I found, but because it's a lot cooler about letting people join quicker, I hung around here and I hope to shed my n00bish chains before too long. I chose rubah because it sounds cooler than Jume. so yeah.

I think that's most of the important ones. Cabotel never lasted long enough to make much of an impression, I stayed away from HPHC, and the two other rpgs I tried to join around the time of padfoot's page probably haven't been updated in years.

[Jojee]

Dear god, too many to name, and I don't think anyone actually reads this xD But I'll list the important forums that I was/am a member of ^^ Important being ones that actually made an impact on me~ a ROUGHLY but not at all accurate cronological order... ^^

* FFWA as TifaL
* EoFF as TifaL, XXXSephirothXXX, tifal_bug, Jojo
* the NUThouse SOCK Brigade as Banana NUT, TifaL
* Heaven's Well as TifaL
* tGA as Kamikaze, TifaL, Strawbee
* #unreal as Strawberry, Strawbee

I dunno, a LOT of other boards ^^; I don't even remember. About every FF EZboard that existed, FFO, ASC, etc etc.

The two big current ones that I visit are this and #unreal, though ;)

[Raistlin]

*ahem*

Ok, first I found Final Fantasy Online(back in early '99). Lurked for months. Finally registered as Raistlin Majere, posted maybe 20-30 times in about two months, mainly in the FF7 Forum.

Then, I found FFWA, mid-late '99. Registered as Raistlin. Made about 500 posts in the first two months, compared to the 20 at FFO. Had a blast with the Beer Crusade, made friends with a ton of people(including BOU and Jojo and others still around now).

Then, FFWA veteran Cid Highwind posted a link to his new EzBoard, The Highwind. Went there, along with other FFWAers(Jojo, BOU, RSL, etc.). A few months later turned into EoFF. Made great friends, and considered it my online home after I left FFWA(mid-late 2000).

Early '00, joined the Gamer's Alliance ORPG along with several EoFFers. It was an EzBoard at the time, owned by Prince Edge. I now own it, along with its vB license. *plug* http://www.gamers-alliance.org/forums */plug*

Other boards: Heaven's Well(sporadically), NUTHouse SOCK Brigade(which I took over, btw, in a brilliant rebellion), random boards owned by Britt or Jojo or BOU, and FG, where I adminned for a while. That's about it.

[Luc]

-Dark Nemesis - This was my first forum. Ever. I didn't really like posting on forums at this time, so I left after like a week. :P

-Final Fantasy Republic - About a year after Dark Nemesis, I joined this board. Great place to post on, the community grew fast, it was funny at times. Still didn't really like posting, so I left after a while.

-Oracle RPG - I absolutely loved this board, and it was probably the greatest I've ever been to. I absolutely loved this place. I made a lot of friends here, but I lost contact with most of them, unfortunately. I became a moderator over the gaming section after a short while. The board closed after a pretty long time, and I'll miss it. :(

-Final Fantasy Lounge - With the closing of ORPG, I went looking for another fun forum. I was linked to FFL and registered. Once again, I made a lot of friends here, but I lost contact with them since I changed my AIM screen name. I talk to them all now, I guess, because of PV and LV. I loved FFL, but ORPG was way better. This place closed, and I went looking for ANOTHER forum. I didn't really fit in to the many forums I registered on, so I gave up posting for a while.

-Lucia Valley - I was talking to a friend of mine, and she linked me to LV. It was a really great place to post. Saw a lot of familiar faces, and just a great community overall. It closed after a while, but reopened.

-The Contact Lair - Meh, nothing to say about this place really. I liked the RPG thing though, but other then that, I didn't really like anything.

-Lucia Valley 2.0 - Same as before, but not as good as the first. Still, it's a great place to be at, and I enjoy posting there a lot.

-Petal's Venue - One of the only places I currently post on. It's a good community, a lot of nice people, and a good place to spend some spare time on. It's not as active as this place, but I still post there nonetheless.

-Eyes on Final Fantasy - This place, of course. Again, it's one of the only places I post on. It's a good community, with a lot of nice people, and it's a good place to spend most of my spare time on.

[RSL]

My first ever message board was FFWA, where I registered as Rydia's Secret Lover. I posted there quite a bit. I was a pretty bad spammer.

Like Raistlin, I came to EoFF via Cid advertising his new EZboard, The Highwind, in a thread at FFWA. Cid was basically giving out mod positions on a first come, first serve basis. I was mod of the FFI-IV forum along with Dr. Unne. Later we went to a global mod system that is still in place today.

I've been at various other boards like Heaven's Well, Fool's Gold, ASC, etc, but this is the one I visit the most. I check FFWA from time to time, but I am by no means an active poster there anymore. It is quite different than here. I used to like there more than here, but that is no longer the case.

[Yamaneko]

I came here in 2001. Joined FG in 2002. Joined Aiyon in 2003. Joined tGA in 2003. Became a mod / admin at FG in 2003. Quit. Became a mod here in 2004. Became an admin at FG again in 2004. Quit in 2005 again. I'm still here in 2005.

EDIT: Oh, and I guess I help at tGA too. :shifty:

[Raistlin]

Or, at least, you will be helping tomorrow.

[Yamaneko]

I'd do something if I knew what that something was. :p

[Kirobaito]

Let's see here...the beginning of my online life began in the year 1999, I think. I was amazed at the concept of a "chatroom," and that was where I found myself most often during the summer months of that year, mainly a few Homestead-sponsored Pokemon rooms. I went by LILVaporeon, if I remember correctly (don't make fun). I had a few acquaintances then, but I never really had any friends, until the end of that year, when I changed my name to Rhinox and befriended a fellow Beast Wars fan named Rattrap at that same Pokemon chatroom.

The beginning of the year 2000 saw me begin a new phase, out of Pokemon and into the world of Zelda. Forums were beyond my level of comprehension, so I went into my first IRC obsession, using a Java applet to log onto z64central.com's IRC under the name of Link2000. Now and then, I stopped by my old Pokemon stomping grounds, but helping people with Zelda: Ocarina of Time was my true calling, I felt. I quickly became enemies with the ops around those parts because I should have been an op, because *I* actually helped people with Zelda. I found myself banned a few times for flaming, ironically enough, an op named FlameCow.

The lazy summer of 2000 gave me a new place, and a new home: www.digital-monsters.com. My new obsession, Digimon, was the centerpiece of my life. It was there that I encounted my first experience with a "forum," until that point a forum concept. I was Izzy_Izumi, but I also became part of their chatroom under my old nom de plume Rhinox. The second forum down on their list was "Online Love," an ideal that captivated my imagination as a young seventh-grader. Like wildfire, girls were finding boys to be their "bf"s, and I definitely didn't want to be left out. Quickly, I found myself a young lady named Kari Kamiya to be "My Girl." There were other couples there, too, and a couple of fairly serious ones. Like at most forums, we formed our own clans, and I found myself against the evil "No Jikans," lead by "Kami No Jikan." I found a good friend in one of the webmasters of that site, whose current name escapes me.

Anyway, Kari and I became closer (*cough*) over the course of several months, however, eventually a long, unexplained absence from the internet resulted her breaking up with me. Oh, how I was sad! My love, Kari, would forever be gone from my heart. It couldn't be! Meh. I still had friends there, ones named Skittles, Tai Kamiya, and Biyomon. However, that forum had to shut down in June of 2001, and I found myself completely lost, without a forum to look to.

Final Fantasy had only been a part of my life for, eh, I'd say about 3 months by then, and it was new and exciting to me, especially my PC version of Final Fantasy VII, which I had purchased over Spring Break. An amazing concept, it seemed. The only other RPG I had ever played was the one and only Super Mario RPG. Oh, how I loved Final Fantasy VII, and I wanted to show off just how much I loved it, too. On the date of June 29th, 2001, I went searching for a place where I could participate in (:O) trivia, and it just so happened that, at a forum called Eyes on Final Fantasy, there was an FFVII General Trivia thread created by one "Raistlin" just a week before I joined, on the 22nd. I registered under (imo) a brilliant name "King Bahamut." However, at that time I could only log on at my grandfather's house, and I quickly had to leave before I could manage to post.

On July 10th of that year, I made my first post here at EoFF, resembling the following:


A:In the Forests between Fort Condor and Junon.

Q: How many do you feed the Mog in "Mog House" (Gold Saucer) on the first and second times to win?
And, lo and behold, this ultimate trivia question stumped the one and only RAISTLIN! I was amazed! At that point in time, Raistlin meant the world to me! He created the trivia thread! I immediately felt as confident as pomp can get itself. I joined in the fun, with Raistlin and Rei, until my mind exploded.

As I became part of the forums, I noticed that, like z64central of lore, this forum had an IRC channel with it! I quickly logged on, and had some wonderful adventures with Aexoden, Del Snizz, and Alixsar.

I didn't post that much until the following February, when I discovered FF Supreme and pretty much stuck to that. I'm tired of going into so much detail, so pretty much in 2004 I added the following boards to my repertoire:

Eyes Off Final Fantasy
Mavtalk.com
Joe Siegler's Texas Rangers Forum
The Gamer's Alliance

In 2005, I added Aiyon.

That's it. *sigh*

[Yuffie514]

i go to a forum for each of my favorite game series :goofy: (if there is one):

:save: Final Fantasy - Eyes on Final Fantasy
well, i've been here since last November ;) and it's the best forum i've been to so far :cool: .

:save: Tenchu - Tenchu Checkpoint
this is the first forum i've been to :jap: . i was a "lurker" :p in that forum for a while until i registered last year :D .

:save: Silent Hill - Silent Hill Heaven
one of my two most-favored horror series :love: , so - why not join in :jap: ?

:save: Zelda - Zelda Elements
most recent forum joined :goofy: . been a long-time fan of Zelda :jap: . the ppl there are like asleep :redface: .

i have registered accounts @ other FF/Square forums :mad: , but only this one is worthy of going to :jap: :jap: .

[Citizen Bleys]

zSNES message board -> Zopahar's Domain -> DarKnight13's ezBoard -> Aclmlm's -> created Bastardly Productions -> CrashMog's -> EoFF.

[Shoden]

Shoden-Spyke-Psychopatchioc101001

i was on a chat server called Razorville but there were lots of idiots there who really annoyed me i left after it began to go faulty

I joined a forum called Kaibaland where i met alot of good people but soon after it was shut down then i Moved to Gaia online which i still go to i met on of my old KL buddies who gave me the new URL for the site i joined as Shoden which i made from the words Bladen my old chat server name and Shonen one of the first names i used

I was looking for info on Final Fantasy 7 so i found eyesonff i noticed there was a forum so i decided to join and now i'm here but i havent had the best of starts with the amounts of arguements i've had over crap things like Aeris or Aerith but i know when to stop at times thats just about my history on the World Wide Web

[Craig]

I joined this forum as KFCruelty, then changed my name. Other than that i've joined forums that friends have made and then deleted, i've joined a KH forum an iRO forum and a Zelda forum, I posted like 2 replys into them all and stopped.

[Old Manus]

Mainly Gamewinners, uk.playstation.com, and here. I don't do 'specialist' boards.

[Xander]

I only remember stuff vaguely but one of the first boards I was at was Mortigi Tempo (sp), a Radiohead message board on greenplastic.com.
My username was Angel first and Creep later on (that was a bad idea xD)

Then I was at lilymud.net, a TLK fanart message board back in 2001, my user name was Nala-the-lioness (my artist name at the time). I left but I'm back there now as Xander ^^

Then there was, umm FFInsider. My user name was Xander there I think.

I joined a harvest moon board while I was playing it, Xander again there, that was a little while ago.

Others include The Basement which I joined last year sometime, a pixel art forum, a HTMl forum, lots of other random ones I didn't post at much.

Now I only post regularly here, a litle at Lilymud and very occasionally at the basement.

[Rye]

Oh... my first forum was a The Sims forum called The Diary of a Sim. Then it got extremely inactive except for a few friends of mine, so I made my own crappy one which I got bored of as soon as I tried FFX and joined EoFF.

My first screename at EoFF was Rikkuyuna89
I switched to Rye
I'm considering to change to Rye_chuuuu~

That's all. :)

[Madonna]

Quick, three-minute history, without side plots, expositions, etc etc...

Polykarbon (the ezboard) -> Kizoku no Idiots-> guppysbbs -> Psychotic Intent (ezboard)/theory reality -> The Restless City/Xerosix -> AnimeOnline -> EoFF/tGA/The Vesper Network (before Primeaux)

Basically. I'd normally provide links, but I gotta do laundry and get to work.

[Agent Proto]

Simple names > Weird names

Anyway, my forum history starts on Nintendo.com

I first registered at Nintendo.com when it was known as the Loud House back in '96, and took part in an RP that was going on then. It was Cornerian's Quest, or CQ for short. It's an RP based on Star Fox. I did fairly well, and eventually ventured into the chatroom there for a good couple years. Later, I joined ezboard and took part in several boards at a time. I even eventually went through the NUThouse, Heaven's Well, probably even at tGA. I knew Britt before I know about EoFF. When he left the boards we staffed at together, I kind of followed him to EoFF, with help from our other friend, Kefkathe3rd. I was impressed by the forums, that I immediately joined and got involved. After joining EoFF, I had joined other forums as well, such as FFLegends, Fool's Gold, Another Small Cave, Aiyon, etc. I even ventured into another forum larger than EoFF, where Drex staffed at, Gamingforce. Nowadays, I try not to register at other forums, because I'll post a couple times there, stop, and post more at EoFF.

xD

EoFF is my online home, and even though I try, I just can't leave.

[Meat Puppet]

I first discovered the world of forums when I overheard someone talking about RM2k in school in about 2001. A week before this, I had popped my internet cherry (new, idiotic internet user). I searched the internet using some ass of an engine and discovered "The Ginyuforce", hosted by Ginyu/MomieMauve, a coder who I still share home made games with today.
Anyway, for along time there I posted pretty crap topics and typed crap. I came very close to being banned. This was the time I started enjoying internet forum, and decided to search further on the internet. I stumbled across a "FFI". Can't remember which year exactly this was. I blumbled around there for a while. Squally cured my bad typing disease, thank god. I heard EoFF mentioned on there, but I never bothered checking it.
About 03-04 or something, Ginyuforce became Gamingsaga, and moved servers. Lots of members quit. :(
I decided to join EoFF, but didn't regular it because it didn't interest me much.
TKH and I were being quite the village idiots at FFI (now Final Gaming). Eventually, I ended up getting banned (which also got TKH banned :( )... I do believe it was because I made an insult in a topic about debates. (after I had had several warnings). Then one day TKH and I accidenlty confused FFI with a different forum and accidently posted a porn fest on it. :rolleyes2
Gamingsaga got shut down, and so I decided to frequent EoFF.

[Resha]

The first online thingy I ever found was actually the EoFF chatroom. :D I was a very weird 12 year old kid with a huge crush on Squall, and I shudder to remember...

My name was Wonky, and please let no one remember me. :shame: Then I went to the FFX-2.net forums, but then they closed down. I also used to own some forums named Tindomiel MB, but that shut down.

Then there's EoFF. :love: My name has always been Resha and always will. :) The only time I wasn't Resha was when I posted at these LoTR forums, I was called elberethgilthoniel then. :rolleyes2

[Trumpet Thief]

chaos: I came to the main site here when looking for Final Fantasy mp3s and porn. I decided to join the forums, 'cause I felt like it.

Trowa: Other then that, we joined HOOTERS' board.

[kikimm]

Hmm. Not much to tell hre. This is the only forum I can manage to come to often. With others I have to make a conscious effort to go there. That said, I like joining small forums, as opposed to large ones. So I don't know why I joined here. *shrug*

Tolkienonline *shame*
(2/3 year break)
EoFF
FF:Final Summit (or whatever the hell it's called now)
Greg Keyes Forums :love:

That about does it.


:D

[Chris]

Well I'm Chris and I'm here.

I'm also a member of the ffshrine, currently goin' under the name: Zulu.
(A two faced mental case, but a heck a lot of fun).

Any more would be a violation of my privacy.

DON'T BE SO DAMN NOSY!

[boris no no]

here!
i joined about 3 or 4 years ago under irvines teddy bear.... i loved irvine so much! :love: then i stopped. then joined again about 3 months ago! :D
i've never really looked for any other forums other then this...i love it too much to betry you all! :p

[Loony BoB]

Only three mentions of Aiyon. :( Anyway, here's what I've been able to find.

EoFF - Joined August 2000. Have never spent longer than a few days without browsing it since that day.
ASC - Joined uhm. I'll check later. Ages ago, though. I'm a come-and-go member there now, but I love the place, it's great fun.
FFFederation - Joined uhm. I'll check later. Robb's board that never took off although it had some pretty amusing threads and a couple of references that will remain in my mind forever. keke.
Aiyon - Joined the day it was made around February 2003 since I run the place. :) If EoFF is my home, Aiyon is my shack. Something? and LJ Forums and EoffFF aren't really anything close to what Aiyon is to me. Basically a hangout board that I use for my own purposes and projects. 'Aiyon' is the name of a world I created and continue to work on.
CricketWeb - Joined March 2004. Probably my 'second forum' after EoFF with regards to activity, the only EoFFer that I know of that goes to CW is Dan (Majin / Loki) 'cause I told him to. But yeah, CW is a great cricket forum, and I'm really involved in a simulation league they have going there. I'm vice captain of CW Green in the dev league and have played an international game too. :D Although I suck as a player, now, I'm still an awesome vc. ;D
FFInfinate / Final Gaming - Was invited to join on the day it opened and took up the offer, have been a come-and-go member ever since. <3 Skwowwy.
tGA - Joined ages ago. Can't remember. I'll check later. I host tGA and work as a technical (well, vB technical) admin there. RP board that I often actually enjoy. :p
The Basement - Joined the day it started. I host TB and work as a technical (well, vB technical) admin there. I might start posting there semi-regularly again soon... since I'm all lovey-dovey lately. Heh. =x
Fool's Gold - Joined donkey years ago and then got my account deleted after making hundreds of posts on my first day (seriously). I am an advisor of sorts at this forum now, with staff forum access and whatever. It's pretty much the only place I post there, anyway.
The Admin Zone - Joined October 2004. I lurk there more than anything, but every now and then I'll post my thoughts. This is a board where many forum admins go to and talk about adminny stuffs, managing communities and whatnot.
LJ Forums - Another one of mine. Forum for LiveJournal users that had a lot of potential, but, sadly, I lost motivation for the place and eventually let it die off. It did however generate enough traffic to warrant a shoddy old placeholder guy to buy the domain and use it for his shoddy old placeholder site, so yay. I still have the forums database for LJF, I think.
Eyes off Final Fantasy - Can't remember when I made it, I'll check later. Mock EoFF board with a mock staff. Good fun for a while but eventually died out. I think I still have the database on my PC.
Something? - Elitist board I made way back. xD Well, not elitist so much as "friends only" or something. Great fun while it lasted. Some brilliant threads.
Online Survivor - Linus and I were on the 2nd or 3rd one of these. I think they were run by Mr Rocko?
vBulletin - Joined September 2003. If anyone's likely to post at vB for EoFF's issues, it'll probably be me. :p I think I'm the only person on staff who posts there at all, actually. Very sporadically, though. I only have 83 posts in a year and a half.
OTHERS INCLUDE: FFLegend, All For The Music, FFOnline, FFWA, HotHardware, All World Final Fantasy, WebHostingTalk, Trillian, Civ Fanatics, AdAware. And I think some Warzone2100 board, somewhere. Along with many more, since I tend to join forums just to ask a question and then leave quite once it's answered.

Note that whenever I said I'll check something later that I'm probably lying.