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FinalFantasyFanatics on EZBoard: April–July 2001
The FinalFantasyFanatics EZBoard community survives in a board-index capture dated April 13, 2001, a forum-index capture dated April 17, and a welcome-thread capture dated April 18. The board index is titled Final Fantasy Fanatics and links one forum, Final Fantasy Fanatic, at pub55.ezboard.com/ffinalfantasyfanatics68174frm3. These are capture dates, not the community's founding date.
The welcome thread displays SpooTeR McGaViN with the role label ezOP and an original post date of April 6, 2001 at 5:21:33 pm; the page does not specify a timezone. The subject is Welcome to Final Fantasy Fanatic. The post welcomes participation and sets one rule: "The only rule is do not bash other members." Its profile link points to the EZBoard username uspootermcgavin; the profile page itself has not been recovered.
FieRcE YeD identifies Spooter McGavin, styled SpooTeR McGaViN in the archived post, as his earlier pseudonym. This is his first-person identification. The archived page independently establishes the displayed handle, role label and post, but does not independently link that account to his later FieRcE YeD handles. No exact alias-change date is established.
FieRcE YeD recalls that "Spooter McGavin" was a deliberately silly pseudonym inspired by Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore, combined with juvenile wordplay he prefers to leave unexplained.
The July 2, 2001 forum-index capture lists a topic titled "This is the reall FFF" by pulse wave, with zero replies and a last-comment date of June 14, 2001 at 10:50:01 am. That is the exact indexed title, including reall; its message body has not been recovered. The same index lists one reply to the welcome thread, with the last comment attributed to nconfer on April 20, 2001 at 12:53:49 pm. That reply's body has not been recovered either, and the index specifies no timezone.
The later reconstructed Ikonboard profile for FieRcE_YeD displays a registration date of November 9, 2001. Together these sources document an earlier EZBoard layer and a later Ikonboard account. They do not establish the exact migration date, an archived account-to-account alias transition, or that similarly named participants on different boards are the same people.
Archived sources:
Later reconstructed FieRcE_YeD Ikonboard profile.