Before time began, before spirits and life existed...

Ok, you can be assured we are not that old. Nevertheless, Zelda Sages has a rich history that actually dates back to July of 2001! So, why not take a look at our rich history!

~ The Story ~
The inspiration for Zelda Sages came from probably one of the most unlikely of places, summer camp. At a small rural YMCA summer camp in July of 2001 a younger Bob had found friendship in a young man by the name of Vince. Both Bob and Vince shared a love for the Legend of Zelda series and really games in general and would spend much of camp time discussing these subjects. It was then that Vince told Bob of an Expage site he was working on, Zelda Home. Zelda Home mainly concentrated on Ocarina of Time information, so Vince offered the idea of Bob creating his own to create a coalition. At this point even with the tools provided by Expage Bob's HTML knowledge and ability was at a level of zero. Luckily, Vince was able to give a great deal of aide and the site was constructed. Of course, there was still a matter of the name of this new website. Bob thought long and hard about a name for this website, and then it hit him like a bag of bricks! Well, more so an Ocarina of Time magazine flew off the shelf that just happened to open to the page listing each sage. It was then that the name Zelda Sages was born.

Vince and Bob worked closely on the expage sites being sure to update everything as time went on. The sites lasted for three years until it was finally made clear it was time to upgrade. Bob received numerous E-Mails from individuals asking to make a full blown website, which Bob decided to honor. He told Vince of the idea and everything began forward nicely. Bob purchased the zeldasages.com domain name in May of 2004 as well as a Vbulletin forum license to encourage communication between visitors until the site was operational. At the start of Zelda Sages, Vince aka Dr_Mean, became the first Co-Webmaster of Zelda Sages. Construction of Zelda Sages was going along rather well and it looked like it would be ready for an early 2005 launch. However, Vince had to leave the project to peruse his dream of game development and shortly after the unthinkable happened. One day Bob went to boot his computer to find out he had suffered a drive failure. Of the information Bob was able to recover, the Zelda Sages documents were not among them.

It was from this experience Bob decided to use a CMS system with Zelda Sages as to save all the information documented on the site server. Bob experimented with a CMS known as Joomla and found it far overly complicated and frustrating to work with. In addition, he wanted something that could integrate with the forum to make everyone's life easier. So, he developed his own very simply CMS and eventually launched Zelda Sages on October 11, 2006. As wonderful as Bob's CMS was, it certainly wasn't the best looking to ever grace the internet. It had its features and whatnot, but it lacked the ability to be properly styled without utterly destroying every little framework. Even the fact that visitors had two styles to choose from lead down a rather uninspired path. So, Bob set out to find something better to build Zelda Sages off of. He did eventually find such a holy grail and spent a little less than a month converting everything in a secret project area known as:
"projectmovezstoacoolerbettercmswithoutthemembershavinganyideawhatsoever".

It was then on November 5th, 2007 Bob relaunched Zelda Sages after what had been advertised as a 24 hour maintenance of the forums. In less than one month the staff of Zelda Sages was able to send everything over, which is rather impressive if you think about it. It was at this point that Zelda Sages was really able to become mainstream and earn its place amongst the ranks of other Zelda communities.

In the present day, Zelda Sages has accumulated hundreds of members, loads of new features, lots of wacky people, great art and stories, affiliation with strong members of the Zelda community, and a host of news to satisfy the Zelda hungry fan. From this day to each preceding Zelda Sages will continue to serve the Zelda fan until the very day the internet explodes, or someone can no longer pay the hosting bill :).

~Timeline of Events~
July 14, 2001- Bob put up expage for Zeldasages

May 14, 2004- Bob buys the Zelda Sages domain name

May 23, 2004- Lt_Justin becomes the first site staff member

February 25, 2005- Dr_Mean steps down from the Co-Webmaster possition to persue game development

September 4, 2005- Cèsar becomes a member of the writing staff

March 7, 2006- Zeldaguardian is appointed Co-Webmaster

April 16, 2006- Windmage is hired as a site writer

October 11, 2006- Zeldasages.com launches!

November 5, 2006- The new Zeldasages.com and forum launches after 24 hours of SHUTDOWN. (Also Here)

November 7, 2006- Versac is appointed to the role of Dark Webmaster

December 17, 2006- The first official Sage in Training election begins. Animaldude, Ultimalink007, and Slyguy46 are all nominees but due to the fact that no one received 75% of the vote, there was no winner.

animaldude 66.67% of vote
UltimaLink007 44.44% of vote
Slyguy46 44.44% of vote

December 25, 2006- Bob explains his plans for the future of Zeldasages

January 21, 2007- The first mailbag goes up

January 27, 2007 - Second S.I.T. election. After some changes to the system, another election was held, with Animaldude winning in a landslide victory, and UltimaLink007 being given a win via Staff Override. The first two Sages in Training were elected!

animaldude: 16 94%
UltimaLink007: 7 42%
Guardian of Ice: 5 30%

February 3, 2007- Cèsar steps down from the staff for time purposes

June 23, 2007- After an epic fight to the death with UltimaLink007 (lol), Animaldude was appointed as ZeldaSages' first Sage.

June 30, 2007- ZeldaGuardian resigns from the post of Co-Webmaster after a scandal had been uncovered.

July, 2007- October 3, 2007- Windmage fills in as a temporary co-webmaster

October 3, 2007- Versac is appointed the new Co-Webmaster of Zelda Sages

October 21, 2007- The FanFiction section is created. A few site cosmetic changes take place *Thanks Forsaken Legend :)*

November 6, 2007- The Zelda Sages chatroom goes live after a donation period

June 25, 2008- i am a teddy joins the staff as a staff writter

October 18, 2008- UltimaLink007 becomes the second Sage after animaldude was voted out of the rank

August 9, 2009- Zelda Sages began publishig staff editorials, the first titled "Ocarina of Time, Still on Top?" by Webmaster Bob

~Layouts of the Past~
May 2004 - October 2006

October 2006 - November 2006

November 2006 - October 2007

October 2007 - Present Day