Call out to all the oldest members of TFF!

*psychosyd* · 06-22-2007, 02:29 PM

Maybe this thread is COMPLETLY retarded... because I do stupid things like that from time to time.

But, I want to ask, how long have you known about TFF... like how long have you been coming, what drew you to it, how did you find it, what sort of fond memories do you have from it?

I think we will start with that, maybe a better chance to get to know each other. I ask this because I decided to go to the waybackmachine to look up old history and see what it was like back when I first joined the forums 6 1/2 years ago. Man, it was weird to see a BUNCH of old names who were there that no longer are with us. I was kind of an immature teenager back then. Now I'm just an immature young adult but who's counting?

Its also a wonder if there are still any WAY old members lurking around, maybe under new names. So if you DID have a previous account name, what was the first one you registered at TFF... when and so forth.

Ok, I registered at TFF at the start of 2001, though I am not quite sure the month stated on my profile is accurate because we had a few forum wipes due to hackers and other problems so we all had to reregister from time to time. I found the website by looking up information on Final Fantasy 6. I remember my family had only recently received the internet and I wanted to find anything on Final Fantasy VI. I somehow stumbled onto thefinalfantasy, then discovered the forums... registered and posted some sort of topic about final fantasy 6 in 2 forums not knowing how to do it properly or what I was doing. From day 1, I was a spammer, because I had no idea what I was doing.

The rest is history.

Back in the old days of TFF, we had hard core RP's going on and it was fun and personal because there were like 200 members. It was sweet.

now we have an overgrown flourished family!

So yeah, back to those questions I asked at the start...

Lazer · 06-23-2007, 05:36 PM

Well I first came here in mid/late 2001. I forget what I was looking for but I just stumbled across it, I hadn't even heard of message boards before that. Not sure whats kept me coming back all these years. I agree on the point that it was alot more..... interesting or personal back in the day. I still say the conflict and tension back in the day is what is lacking now. I mean seriously I dont even hate anyone on here anymore. Actually I think ill start a fight now. Syd your a donky loving fruit basket..... j/k. Seriously though I really cant put my finger on a reason I keep coming back to this place, but 99% of the time I'm on my comp with nothing to do I end up here. I guess its just the variety of people and quality of people.... and the variety of the quality of the people...... boyaa.

On a side note does anyone remember the azn dude who used to come here with the sig of a cartoon guy wearing a set of head phones.

Alizée Jacotey · 06-23-2007, 08:01 PM

I started coming here in 2001, but my first account was deleted due to inactivity.

I heard about TFF from a kid in seventh grade. Final Fantasy was one of my favorite games back then, so I came here to get information, etc. To this day, the home page is lacking in content, so I came to the forums.

I remember being good friends with a lot of members back then. Usagy, Sean (Well, Sean hates me), S, all of the older folk. I remember all the drama over silly things, like when Pete became an administrator and gave out extra Gil to his friends and people freaked out. Everyone wanting Braska Spira banned because he had a death list in his signature and wanted all the old Final Fantasies remade. Watching in awe as Andromeda postwhored his way to the ranks of OmegaGear and che post counts. Dawes being Dawes.

TFF used to be really important to me. It was more fun than stupid middle school kids. Even though the clans were never active, it was nice to belong to them. Those were the days.

*Maridia* · 06-23-2007, 09:38 PM

Well I'm not that old of a member really, but I guess staying for anymore than a year is a godo amount of time invested.

I joined mid October of 2005. I had been into FF while and since I was at home alot I had alot of time on my hands to play the games. My friend who knows alot more about the series than I found this randomly just looking for FF stuff and he joined and told me about it. Well he got bored quickly and left but I started talking to a couple people way back when I first joined. Mostly OceanEyes and Strong Bad. Pretty much then just over the next few months it was a long winter so I was here and posted tons, and met up with a few more people and have just become what I am today.

Back then a whopping year and a half ago there were no ranks, only noobs, members, and then the staff ranks. Also no gifts either, those came soon after. I remember Cesar was still an S Mod and I think Bunny was the mod of GC, I haven't seen him here in ages. I also remember more clicks of people. Like everyone had more of a tight crew. Now everyone dilly dallies with whom ever. just then everyone seemed to keep to their select group of friends...also the tff chat. The real one that was good on aim. I never spoke alot in those but it was fun to just read what people had to say.

And that's about what I remember pretty much, good times.

Tifa · 06-23-2007, 10:20 PM

Lazer: That'd be nikes. Haven't talked to him in years though.

As far as the OP topic ... been coming since actually June / July 2001. Had a different account which I ditched and then ended up getting this account, which has a different name. Found the site when I think I was searching for animated gifs .. THEY'RE CUTE I CAN'T HELP IT. Kind of registered on the forums and generally forgot about them for the most part.

I mostly kind of miss the chat. Back when I wasn't CORRUPTED BY THE REST OF YOU. Lol j/k. It was nice though. The days when S couldn't stop saying sorry. Hahah. And the friends I've made ... still talk to a bunch of them, have met a bunch of them (Mina, Ken, Pete~

). Too bad I don't even know the people posting on the forums anymore >>

Zell Dincht · 06-23-2007, 11:04 PM

January 2002. A very long time ago indeed. Selphie Tilmitt and Rinoa Heartlily were the ones to bring me aboard. We were all in the journalism club at our high school ^_^ nerds in our own respect.

My favorite moments were the epic RP's that I could never quite par up too. I tried so hard to be like all the other great writers on TFF, sadly it took a very long time to get up to their level. I think though that because of that striving force I received from them my English skills have been refined to what they are today. Not perfect, but I get paid to teach it so I suppose that it is good enough.

Oh TFF, so many memories.

ZD

*Mistress Sheena* · 06-23-2007, 11:16 PM

August '02. As well as Alisyn and Cesar. (Those two are the only ones I know that joined the same month I did.)

Ahh.. the good ol' days. I used to be a postwhore too. Bleh. -_-

however i wuz also a n00b who typed like dis n stuff, 2.

...Phuck, that was hard to type. Lmao. XD

**Andromeda** · 06-23-2007, 11:59 PM

It was June 26, 2002 when I offically joined. Which is actually coming up soon making it an even 5 years. That is a really long time, hard to imagine that its been that long. I was quite the post junkie back then, but I'd like to think that they were always quality posts. But I sort of posted myself out, but I think that happens to a lot of people, see the same topics. You've discussed the games in all of the threads. You don't feel like posting again over who's the best villain.

Anyway, as I said that was when it was offical. I actually viewed the forum for a month before joining, so that I could learn and understand what it was like. I did not know what a forum was like, so I wanted to make sure that I understood the system. That way I did not make all of the mistakes that the noobies did. And before that I visited the main site infrequently for news on the FF games. It was actually updated a lot back then, but after a while it was no longer updated. But I ended up joining the forums.

That first year I posted 6000 times plus, but there is a reason I did. I did not have anything to do. I was literally sitting at home in my room living on the internet and writing. So I would spend between 8pm-4am living on the forums. It's amazing what you can do in that time. And I did. It also helps that the clubs were highly active then, so I posted there a lot. But then college started and I did not have the time, TFF went through the .org thing and lost a ton of activity. All of the posting stopped and things managed to push on through.

As Syd said back then there was only a few hundred people. But I still think there is only a few hundred people today. Just because it says we have 7000 members does not mean that they post. 75% of them are bots more than likely and 20% are people that only post a few times or not at all. Its the 5% that sticks it out and joins the community. But that is all we need to be a community.

Neo Necron · 06-24-2007, 02:44 AM

Christmas Eve, 2001. I didn't go mad with the colour blue back then, and I joined because another FF forum I was a member of was temporarily down and I wanted to temporarily fill the void. Then of course, I ended up staying here, haha.

The dominant crowd of people who posted on the boards has completely changed since then, and I'm a bit of a lurker now so I hardly know many of the regular posters these days. It's just a bunch of names and words associated with them....

DragonHeart · 06-24-2007, 06:10 AM

August 20, 2001. Almost six years for me, rawr. Back in those days...OmegaGear was an admin (Or an s-mod, something like that) and people like Spekkio, TrueOmega and Mydako were still quite active. I remember joining just as Korova left, actually, though he was still around in our old Hall of Doom chat on AIM heh.

TFF had way more personality back then, I do agree with the rest of you on that. I miss those first couple years, they were good times. Something about this place keeps drawing me back though, so eventually I gave up trying to find other forums and just stay here for the most part.

~DragonHeart~

*psychosyd* · 06-24-2007, 05:11 PM

Holy Cow, look at all the people from those early days posting. You freaking bunch of lurkers! Be more active!

I remember seeing the name Aeris Gainsborough or whatever (ok I can't spell her last name!) and the ridiculous little internet squibbles that seemed so important back then.

Then GI Jew and his gang, he was infamous... as was Evil Dark Odin if I remember correctly.

There were a few cases where some crazy Hacker took the place down for a while.

I wanna throw out some other names from back in the day because its fun, maybe they will show up

StarSoldier, Shagamuffin, Nightshade, Whitney, King of Xyst, Meta...

and my personal friend, TimonMeera... I wonder what happened to him

Lazer · 06-24-2007, 07:33 PM

Shit yeah dropthemnikes was his name. Wonder what happened that guy. Hav'nt seen him post in years, he was a pretty cool guy.
Not sure if jew ever posts but I somehow doubt it, his IPs probably still banned lol. That guy always got shit stirred up.
Yeah I remember Whitney, her and the soldier gang.
But yeah there still seems to be alot of old members on here but it's seems they dont post much. I go in spurts I'll be on every day for a week or two then gone for a while. We need some crazy threads to stir shit up. But I cant come up with one now....I'm busy....... yeah..... busy.....

Mike · 06-24-2007, 07:56 PM

I joined in 2000 before the boards were Vbulletin. Two of my buddies from high school joined at the same time, Che and Pachewy/Andy.

I have so many memories here; RPing, becoming a mod, getting promoted to supermod, hacking the boards so that the background was spam, having multiple personalities and banning GI-Jew about 60+ times a week. Now I'm kind of a lurker. I mostly only check General Chat, Intelligent Discussions and the Art forum.

.EcKS. · 06-25-2007, 01:26 AM

ohhhhhhh i arrived here, like 2001 i beleive, my old ff forum was down for a while and needed to fill the void...
And that first several months were some of the best times here in tff town.
Jew and I started the chosen, got our friends to join, and we'd spend all night pm'ing mods and members harrasing them...playing pranks on members creating accounts masqurading as women, and hitting on people, maybe gettin into a online relationship or two....and the fights.....oh the fights.
We couldnt post in a thread without stirring up a sh|t load of sh|t....being banned a ridicolous amount, gettin IP banned, then switching ip's then re-registering....

oh i miss the old crew of peeps, Jew, Whit,PETE!!!, Che....list goes on...

As for jew, his where abouts are in alberta, with no interent connection...so i dont think he has time for tff anymore.

i stopped showing up and posting for a while...i actually made a thread...that didnt last long, well several months....it's not the same...all these new jacks, people without much of a personality, and jock riders...