The Year Was 1999...

[Raistlin]

The EzBoard only existed for less than 30 days in '99 (26, to be exact), and I doubt reached more than 100 registered members in that time.

I should clarify that it was FFO and FF:ID I joined in 1999. It's possible I didn't come upon EoFF until a year or two afterward. On the other hand, I may very well have visited the Ezboard as there were a million of them popping up at the time.

If you ever saw the EoFF EzBoard, it would have had to have been between the end of '99 and the first half of 2000, because after that we moved to UBB (which is what FFO and FFWA used back then). There were zillions of FF EzBoards between 1999-2000, and all of them were relatively tiny by today's standards. In a few months, EoFF had become "the largest FF-related EzBoard" (or so we called ourselves), and while I have no real recollection of the specifics, I don't think we had much more than a couple hundred members.

EDIT:

I begged for a moderator position (and eventually admin) near the beginning of FF:ID and got it, but I don't think we were ever super active with the exception of a short-lived UBB clOuD set up that served as one of the splinter boards people migrated to after Tifa's 7th Heaven was shut down.

Are you talking about the FFO forum? Because ahaha that place was great. It was the emo, 12-year-old dating advice forum, which, for those of you who were unfortunate enough to have missed FFO in 1999, was exactly like it sounds.

(in all fairness, I actually lurked in there a fair amount when I first discovered FFO, but in my defense I was like 11-years-old)