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unsociallly minded Random nobody Level: 2     Posts: 1/1 EXP: 44 For next: 2 Since: 11-25-16 Since last post: 5.4 years Last activity: 5.4 years 
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| 1999 got new computer, interested in video games and ROMS. FF, CV, etc. I stumbled upon Zophar's Domain and then eventually researched all the old FF's and Castlevania's thanks to Castlevania Dungeon. Thereafter found "The New Final Fantasy" as they were making their own 2D Final Fantasy remake.
- Started my own fan website/forum entitled "The End of Final Fantasy" summer of '99 (this was a very popular thing to do in the late 1990's, there were small fan sites for video games, music artists, etc. it was an extremely inefficient version of what the web has become today.) -- at its peak, I was able to join the yahoo directory for fan websites on Final Fantasy, which produced over 200 unique hits per day - this is was when yahoo used to categorize search results -- during this time, there were several other websites/forums that were flourishing like EyesonFF(still in existence) and FF Legend. EyesonFF and FFL were two i frequented, and in passing i started following a member "Citizen Bleys" who had his own forum entitled "The Bastardly Forums" -- on Bastardly, there were several unique users as well as discussions you wouldn't find elsewhere on the internet. There I met "Acmlm" as he was tinkering with hacks for SMB and several hackers were on Bastardly showcasing their hacks -- i started speaking with Acmlm frequently over instant messenger and recall the initial time he was working on his own board. this had to be sometime in 2000. i know he didn't want to pay for a UBB or VBB and the other alternatives were ezboard which wasn't doing it. -- i recall Acmlm started the board with just PHP, no database at all. strictly PHP was good for about a month until request times blew out of proportion and Acmlm started working on MySQL integration. I forget when Emuz was part of this project but I know it was early on as well. -- That summer I believe there was finally a beta version available. by then EZboard's became less and less frequented by the communities as the popular fan forums were either transitioned to VBB or alternatives including Acmlm Board -- The summer of 2000 is essentially when Acmlm board took off and gained interest and popularity. i am sure many of the community that are here now might owe it to that summer (i can recognize many handles here right now from 16 years ago...) that is a brief history, i left after that summer and casually posted thereafter as other life obligations took hold. the whole "growing" up period i suppose inflicts everyone eventually. so that's where i am, a good 16+ years later and i'm back here. why? i decided to google my old screennames i used to post on acmlm board and the internet back in the day. somewhat of a nostalgia trip and i found this place. i've tried to come back once and i recall i wasn't welcome. maybe round 2 will be better... questions as i am curious - 1. is this the most active board? 2. where is acmlm? emuz? |
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