No, the grand poster was right about this being created in the mid 2000s, and he didn't confuse EasyRPG with RPG Maker. If you had just clicked on the "Blog" link of the official page, you'd seen that the blog was created in 2010.
Searching the web, I found the old forge (same project name, same first developer name) at Google Code Archive. The oldest commit is dated 2006-01-16, so it's at least that old.
Searching the web, I found the old forge (same project name, same first developer name) at Google Code Archive. The oldest commit is dated 2006-01-16, so it's at least that old.