Community:Zelda Shrine 383

Zelda Shrine 383 began as two separate websites. One, (Zelda Shrine) began in 1999. And the second, (Zelda 383) began in 2004. Although not the biggest website, it has a few unique features. Such as every member adopts a poor subrosian and nurtures it. Making it there icon across the website.

The Original Zelda Shrine
January 1999 - October 1999

The original Zelda Shrine was built to provide help playing Zelda 3: A link to the past. It featured a walkthrough, information about items in the game and the official story behind the game. You could also download the game to play on your computer with an emulator.

October 1999 - May 2000

When Zelda 5: Ocarina of time had been released, the site needed an update. Therefor, it was given a new design and another section covering Zelda 64. The section contained among other things a walkthrough and screenshots of the actual game.

May 2000 - May 2002

A new Zelda Shrine was released to utilize the new possibilities of Macromedia's Flash player. Everything from the old site was transferred and a few more things were added. With the use of Flash you could play the songs from Zelda 64 on an ocarina and try a few small games. The games were, however not based on Zelda in any way.

May 2002 - October 2002

As the old Zelda Shrine had been without an update for almost two years, I decided to start it up anew. It was first made as the old ones in html but was later converted to php. This opened a whole lot of possibilities for the such as a forum and a search form. However, when I made a member system, I just couldn't fit it into the design so the Zelda Shrine got a makeover.

November 2002 - December 2005

Zelda Shrine began to rise in popularity among this time, leading up to the merger.

Zelda 383
2003 - 2004

Zelda 383 began in August 2003 as an msn group title, ZeldaReview. It only had content for Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, but it had a quite large fan base for awhile.

Feb. 2004 - Sep. 2004

Zelda 383 was created on tripod.com (in fact you can still see the old website (http://zelda383.tripod.com)) and it stayed there for awhile until the webmaster decided to get his own domain.

Oct. 2004 - December 2005

Zelda383.net was purchased, and begin to fill up more and more with content. The hits began to rise, and the google ads began to pay for themselves. Thats when Carl from Zelda Shrine and Dylan from Zelda 383 merged there sites into one. Creating (http://zshrine.com) Zelda Shrine 383.

Zelda Shrine 383
January 2006 - March 2007

For over a year things went smoothly. Yet again, the website began to rise until in March when the server crashed. It took 2 years before Dylan could gather the sources to reopen Zelda Shrine.

December 2009 - Present

Zelda Shrine is reopened, and trying to regain some of its population.