Community:History of Hyrule

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On the 22nd May 2002, Melora first created History of Hyrule on the Angelfire free hosting service. The site quickly out-grew the storage and bandwidth restrictions and Melora was forced to move to a private server where she purchased the History of Hyrule domain name.

As a site that focused on the older games in the series, notability ignoring the Nintendo 64 classic, Ocarina of Time, History of Hyrule was very much a niche website and although gained prominence through it's readership lacked the affiliation of many of the larger Zelda websites of the time.

In 2004 Melora, the webmisstresses health quickly declined and due to this, and direct plagarism of her work by various other well known sites of the time Melora closed History of Hyrule and put it on a hiatus status. In 2006 the index page was changed to reflect a change of Melora's opinion and finally the most recent change was in 2008/2009 when Melora used the index page as a way of restarting her well known translation projects of Zelda manga and doujini.