Am I going insane? Wasn't Create originally a Fabric mod?

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.