Living in the past: EoFF origins

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

ok

[Psydekick]

You did and are still doing a great job Cid!

[Teek]

Oh great Cid! Your masterfulness makes me hardened with envy.

[Vyk]

Hey, I want to brown-nose too~

I hope none of you are serious. Remember, Cid's human. Just like the rest of us

Though I am glad this site was originally started.

[Caspian]

Wieners.

[nik0tine]

Ah, the words of Cid the great, tell us some tales of the early days of EoFF oh great one!

Do posts like this get annoying?

[Cruise Control]

Ah, the words of Cid the great, tell us some tales of the early days of EoFF oh great one!

Do posts like this get annoying?

You\'d think they would after a while.

[Levian]

If by a while you mean instantly, then hell yeah.

[Miriel]

Do you ever get freaked out by strange online people who seem to revere you?

YES. My wife makes fun of me hardcore. She finds it to be a great conversation piece: "My husband has a final fantasy website where thousands of people [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] their pants when he posts." It can be embarassing. But like I said before, if the praise is genuine and not sarcastic, I like it. I mean, I don't want to sound stuck up or anything, but, however unintentional, A LOT of people have had their lives changed things to EoFF. Meetings, relationships, marriages, pregnancies, drinking, drugs, shopping, etc. That just freaks me out sometimes. I like to think that I sorta, on accident, changed people's lives. I hope that doesn't sound stuck up, but it is fun to think about. I am in no way taking credit for what EoFF is today. EoFF today is the result of hundreds of additional helpers.

[Teek]

Don't you <b>dare</b> to speak of the greatness of Cid as if he were mere mortal! Cid is clearly above your jealous ideas.

[-N-]

*adds more oldbie stories*

[bipper]

Teh site never really got cool untill 07-12-2005. Scientific fact.

Bipper

[Dignified Pauper]

the EoFF Post never covered this story because no one cared. We found it easier to make up slander.

[Del Murder]

this place actually managed to exist for maybe a day before Raistlin joined, too.

I thought Raistlin joined before it existed.

[Christmas]

Once upon a time, on the Internets, there was this guy. His name was Sean Robinson, but online he likes to call himself Cid. So what did this Cid do? Well, he made a place on the Internet, and called it the Highwind, and advertised it on a Final Fantasy forum that we like to call FF:WA.

There he was, in the thread, he asked for some new members. Back then, advertising wasn't banned, so it was allowed and he got away with some new members.

Back on the Highwind, he made some of the new members moderators, or maybe even an admin. It was all cool because it was his forum, that he called the 'Highwind.' Then came along a new plan, he renamed his place 'Eyes on Final Fantasy'.

Eyes on Final Fantasy was just starting, on the EzBoard, and it grew. It was then the fastest growing FF forums to be, on the EzBoards. Soon he got bored with Ezboard, and he got rid of it and moved to Ultimate Bulletine Board (UBB), in less than a year, he got a vBulletin, which is a primitive version of the current vB that is today.

And from the past, to the present, there was only one person on the staff who stayed since the beginning, and it was not just ol' Cid. It was our good friend, the lovely bearded RSL.

History of EoFF in one post. Nice!

I wonder if people trout their pants nowadays when Del Murder post?

I rmb i wet my diapers when i saw Cid post and made a baby when he made another?

PS: The baby ran away and became Rantzien I think.