I recently had this conversation on Discord (I am the jerma guy):
I looked on the official Create mod’s Curseforge page, and the earliest version is for Forge, with the first Fabric version being dated 3 years later.
I wanted to send my earliest minecraft saves (with the mod) here, but I can’t find them anywhere, I suspect they’ve been lost to time.
I am genuinely confused, this is not a joke.
Others have already answered, but just to confirm as a big Create fan, no it was not originally a Fabric mod. I played with it on Forge since the early versions on 1.14 and I remember eagerly awaiting a Fabric release.