What WAS eternal-anime.org?
As I had stated in my history page, I had bought this domain in 2018, but before that it was actually owned by a forum community I frequented!
Eternal Anime was originally a forum dedicated to the distribution of anime wallpapers and avatars. I'm pretty sure this is how I came upon the website (probably from a sailor moon shrine) and was a small community. It was mostly graphics sharing, and its where I gained my passion for creating anime websites.
It was ran by Ji-n and a few others around 2005, first on invisionfree, then self hosted for a couple years (2005-07). The community wasn't huge... but it was like a family. For some reason I even got thrown in as a moderator (Even though I was only 11.. at that time.. uh) but none the less, this is where I learned that whoa... You can MAKE a website? BY YOURSELF?!
After that, it got merged to their Ragnarok Online server, Eternal-Ragnarok.com!
Eternal RO Anime (2006 - 2008?) @ratemyserver.net
Eternal RO Anime was the successor in the form of a Ragnarok Online server. (And also, my very first interaction to what an MMO was and my way to learning basic LUA at age 12 aha)
I can't tell you the how or why of things; I was really, REALLY young and was more excited about learning what an MMO was.
E-RO was special in the fact that everything on the server was Anime themed, from the Kafra being the girl from Elfen Lied, to Inuyasha mini side quests, anime BGM, and a bunch of custom items that were ALL anime themed.
The main town was Lighthalzen, and there were a bunch of systems in place, like snow, cool lighting ect.
Whatever had happened to the server/site though, I have no clue. I lost internet access in the middle of playing on the server (Back then, laptops had to have wi-fi cards slid into the side of them and mine broke!) and ended up delving into using an eAthena test server to hone my RO scripting skills, since thats what I had downloaded.
Helios RO Twilight (2008 - 2009) @ratemyserver
I honestly. have NO remembrance of what Helios was. All I remember was when I could access the internet again, Eternal-Ragnarok would redirect here. The only things I heard was Admins of Helios had stolen some of E-RO's assets after teaming up with them?? And then everyone resigned.
(The fact that Pinky's sig of ALL THINGS was archived on the wayback machine throws me back so hard... She would use this character when she helped me learn RO.)
Apocalypse RO (2009 - 2013) @ratemyserver.net
The last thing I had heard about E-A's creator, Ji-n, was on this server. Again, the anime theme and sprites returned here with 3 different server types: Twilight, Aurora, and Dusk.
One of the servers, retained all the anime sprites and was a super low rate server, while the other two were regular rates. (rates are just different EXP and Item Drop percentages)
These are the screencaps I could get off the wayback machine:
Afterward
Otherwise... Thats all the history I really have on Eternal Anime. It was a small anime community that still has an impact on me to this day, and I'll be forever grateful for that... I wish I had more to show, but my old HHD I had used to store many of my late 2000's things died a year back, so all is lost to the archives...
