About Us

Eternal Legend was never intended to be made public. It was never intended to be stored on computer. The very first incarnation was simply a notebook filled with hand-written scribbles about Final Fantasy VI as I slowly built up a personal guide.

Time passed.

Then one day, I wrote a little program to manipulate multidimensional shapes. I wanted to show it to a few people, but didn't want the hassle of emailing it around. The solution was Tubbaware Interactive, a hastily thrown together website on the free host Angelfire. Like all "My First Websites," it was bad. Pieced together from handfulls of HTML I had copied from other sites, it was almost certainly... how to put this... not standards compliant.

Ugly, too.

But it worked well enough. I had a home to which I could upload my creations, and other people could see them. I forget if the URL was ever made public. I forget even the URL itself; there's a chance it still exists out there on the Big Wide Interweb. Anyway, it was home. I began learning HTML and was slowly drawn in by the whole web design "thing." Later, an idea struck me. Why not put my notebook online for others to see? It was information other people could benefit from, after all. I began coding.

With all of this new information about to be made public, and with everything I had learned about HTML and web design, I decided that the old Tubbaware Interactive should be banished to allow for this new era. I registered an account on Tripod, giving me a sleek and memorable URL, and on August the 17th 2000AD, Tubbaware v2.0 was born. There was much rejoicing.

More time passed. The following year, on March the 11th, the Final Fantasy portion broke free and went on to a new Tripod account. This was the first of many splits and reformations that would plague the site(s) for years to come. Now apart, they continued to grow and flourish. That is, until some time in June when both sites were forcibly closed down for apparently abusing the terms of service. It all went very quiet.

Then just as suddenly as it had disappeared, Eternal Legend sprang back to life on the 18th of June. It had a new and reliable host, PowWeb, and a spanky new domain name of its own. In a turning of the tables, it now played host to its original creator, Tubbaware Interactive. It has continued ever since.

Ever since its founding, Eternal Legend has been working from two core attributes: completeness and correctness. Completeness because we try to go as far as possible and uncover as much as we can, and correctness because we don't trust hearsay. The information we gather is from the games themselves, and not simply harvested from some other hard-working website. This way, short of typographical errors or misinterpreted notes at least, we know that what we say is true. This is why Eternal Legend is staffed by only two people, myself and Ayako, whom I would trust with my life if it came down to it.

We also have a few beliefs about website design and management. Since learning what HTML really is, and since subjecting innocent people to a hideous white-on-black framed midi-embedded Javascript-powered mess of a site, the basic design of Eternal Legend has changed very little. It's simple, quick to load, and doesn't make any assumptions on your behalf. It's browser-independent. It's hopefully easy to navigate. We don't abuse things like tables or images. In fact, it should be perfectly usable on small screen or text-to-speech devices. You probably wouldn't want to, but it's the principle that counts.

Eternal Legend is still just a publicised notebook. The work we do is largely just for the pleasure of doing it, and not because millions of people are capable of seeing it. If the internet were to explode in a ball of flame tomorrow, it would simply return to its paper-based origins. This site is a labour of love, a thing which is worked on for personal enjoyment. As such, it will continue to grow until the fickle hand of cynicism removes the very pleasure from our hearts. It may change direction as our horizons are broadened, but it will always be ours.

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