Not counting the Spanish online presence.... I have been in so many places that it is hard to account for all of them and I am sure I will miss remember some and even omit important ones.
Do not take the years as absolutes by any means. This is list is so long taht I guess not many will read it all, hahah.
1998~ We got our first computer. I only used google a few times and clinged to the few websites I found. I didn't know how to set bookmarks so I just would use google to find the same zelda sites. We had misconceptions about MSN and talking with Strangers. As I learned more about computers through school I felt more confident about the forums. I remember I read the description for a forum and I wanted to be part of it. I gathered all what i could to ensure my parents it was safe and be granted permission.
2000 - 2003? - HCA - Hyrule.Com.Ar was the first website I arrived back in the year 2000 short of graduating middle school and entering highshool. It took me a year to convince my father to let me create an account. I was a complete n00b not understanding netiquette concepts. I came up with Kaynil and started using since then. Admired some people from there and I felt like I belonged even though it was a once sided thing. I was trying to fit and still struggling to communicate my ideas in English so I can only imagine how much of a spammer and annoyance I probably was back then.
2002 - 2005 Ganon's Tower - This became the refuge when HCA fell due hackers and server problems. Many members migrated and remained there for years. It became more of a casual chat place than zelda community. kept in touch with some members and finally got the courage to approach Zelda King in a more effective way. I made some friends and kept the friendship with some others. HopeNForever and Link1512 are two names that resonate along an awesome dracula themed moderator who helped me. I remember I said he was nice and he said with a wink to keep it a secret given his reputation. he made my day so much. It was as if a superhero had noticed me. I was used to staff cold shoulders so it wa refreshing for me.
2002 - 2006? The Sacred Realm - I just remember posting in HCA a heartfelt post being because of Dt7 leaving after getting in a fight with another member (I kind of remember the fight and I remember the other member was also someone I got along in the forum games area), said member PMed afterwards and linked me to two communities he was active the CAN (C-something... Anime Network) and TSR. The Sacred Realm was an eye opener to my concepts of Staff versus normal members and making genuine bonds. I was used to cold staff here they were all warm and part of the community. I wasn't dismissed I was patiently explained my most stupid doubts. It was there where I could ask anything, where I felt my opinion was worth something and where I was challenged to reason why I supported certain opinion. While it was a Zelda/FF community I remember more the members athn the topics themselves. I met great people and I am happy I can be honoured with their presence in this very community. Members like @LinkSkywalker, @Kaltaka, @'zilla, @kilovh... and probably someone else I might be forgetting about (sorry sorry sorry)!
December 2001 - 2003? - The Great Deku Tree - Somehow one day I wasn't supposed to be on I got added through MSN on a weird group conversation mostly between forum admins. Attrox was complaining of his board being inactive. loving zelda boards I said I would join. I was expecting a simple suddenlaunch type of forum instead I found an active and intimidating vB community. I joined purely because I said I would. Went to forum games. I met @Sardonic Pickle there. I remember some cool users but I never made as big roots as my friend did there.
2003~2004 GamersCrossFire - Informal community run by Zelda King. it was actually pretty nice and served as refuge from other zelda communities. the members were united and full of inside jokes I couldn't understand. I might be misspelling the name (sorry). Today I still keep in touch with him through Miiverse but other than that we don't really talk often.
2003~2005 Hyrule The Land of Zelda or HTLOZ - On GXF I learned of HTLoZ and to my delight found members from everywhere reunited there. I couldn't make many memories but the members made the stay worth it.
2004-2006? The Anubis Boards - Invited by KK who was invited by another member from GT I got pulled into a forum like no other I have ever stepped into. There were unique categories and topics being created. Back then the admins were a couple with a specific dynamic. The man was a vocal and even coming across as rude person. The dictator of the forum where his word was law. the lady was the sweetest friendliest girl you can imagine that always cared for people and made her best to make us have a good time. She also posted a lot, and I mean a lot. Stressing over making sure the forum was active coming up with anything at the top of her head. I made some deep bonds at the Anubis boards, some just as deep as I did in TSR. Eventually there was a big conflict involving Staff, members took sides and the place was deleted without any warning. It was just gone. So we were left in the air. From the conflict stances and the desire to remain united two communities were created that kind of worked as a clique at first. Eventually things settled down and they relaxed and became open again. They were both very different. I ended up sticking in the Desert Lullaby.
2003~2006 Zelda Dimension - I think I met @Akiranon from there. It was a pretty cool community. I remember the admin was Henry N. I wonder how is he doing. It was pretty fun. I don't remember many names but I remember that place meant something very special to me. It was also were a friend of mine confessed a crush on me first through the boys only thread and then to me. They wanted to know if I had accepted him but I was still in denial with my own feelings and deflected him.
Henry N also got in a relationship and both were in charge of the community. I feel awful I cannot recall her name even though she was so nice with me.
2005~ Zelda Community / Zelda Cavern / Zelda Fortress - To be honest I don't remember many details on how I arrived and how I became staff and which merges I witnessed. It was the first time I was ever trusted in a position of staff and while I don't feel I contributed much, it was great being part of a team. I had become more vocal and confident in my English but I was still pretty much hammering myself down with self doubts.
2006 ZeldaGamers - The refugee I ran when several communities fell one after another. Zelda Dimension close their doors for good as the webmasters had lost the passion that drove them years ago with Zelda. Made new friends, kept in touch with others and they were my support for my Long Distance Relationship.
2006~ Final Fantasy Paradise . Some peeps from Hylian Hero kept mentioning FFP and eventually through PM I was invited to check it out. The friendly atmosphere enchanted me. I first joined as Dark Rinku but the dissonance between my old avatar and the sweet name calling as they knew I was a girl ended up making me feel uncomfortable enough to ask for the name change to Kaynil. I followed the place from its first version to the split back in the third version. While Version 2 was cool many members didn't like that some of the new things added to entice activity seemed to rise Spam. Other problems arose but even with that
2006? Dessert Lullaby - The continuation of TABs became quickly a second home for us. It was like the ToH. A bunch of people that came close in another community that they lost. They tried mainly to keep in touch and take the opportunity to make something unique out of it. DL was that place I could visit anytime and people would remember you, care for you and be interested in what have you been up to. they were encouraging and at the same time spoke to you bluntly on how they felt.
2008? Advertise Hotspot - I don't remember exactly how I ended up in this community. I think it was forum hopping. I found Forumansion and while intimidated I was curious about the forum currency and the services. FM started going downhill and I checked other similar niche communities, enchanted by a zone to talk about your forum experiences. AH stood up. I liked the webmaster he seemed quite caring, young and yet energetic, always advertising his place and having ideas for contests and stuff. It was great. Being a promotion forum there was a zone where members could review other people's websites. I tried to review one and went as usual too long in my reply, but Joel thought I was good material for Reviewer so i joined the staff team as a Reviewer. It was fun and the team was cool. Eventually I switched to becoming a packager alternating between being a packager there and in other forums that were starting. I tried to bring the concept to the spanish speaking forums but I wasn't committed enough and failed. AH had some hiccups, including some nasty rumours about the webmaster. He had always been kind to me, to the point that not only did he provide dme with advise as I opened about my Spanish Zelda community, he bought a domain and pushed it to me. He also had shown signs of being naive giving too much money to someone who never paid him back. Anyway AH was coming back and he was making an event out of its relaunch... The relaunch was delayed and suddenly he disappeared. Then things came to the open. That webmaster had been using stolen cards to pay for goods. He had been caught. A few weeks later AH was gone. Half a year later the domain he gave me was taken because of his deeds. My only options were to either pay his debt or just wait for it to expire and be back into the market again. I forfeit it.
After that I joined other communities I found mainly through Forum Promotion but I didn't really strike a deep community. I had great places to chill and pretty nice times but I was way less involved than before.
2014? - The 3DSpedia - A good member from ForumPromotion PMed regarding a project he had and asked me if I wanted to be part of it. I was thrilled but also was the time when I wasn't doing very well with my job and stuff. I was stressed but I wanted to be part of it. I saw it coming out and progress but not because of me. I tried to be there and do some game reviews and posts. I kept failing. I honestly feel very embarrassed about it. I wish I had done more. last thing I committed was the MM remake. Although I made it it was a lot later and it was rushed. I am not sure if they even published. I didn't exactly tried to get their attention. After that I feel to ashamed of myself to even visit despite that i know fair well they are all very understanding, encouraging and friendly and wouldn't wish me anything bad. They were great I just feel like a complete failure.
2014? Zelda Sanctuary - I helped for a while with the news and compiling the news. I figured having a responsibility to post news would help me with my Spanish community too for ideas and news. Things worsened at work and moving out and life and gah. I really could help as much as I potentially could have five years ago. It was still a nice return to a Zelda community and to some forum peeps I had not seen in years. Sadly ZS suffered from the same symptoms as its predecessor ZT and it edned up being removed at some point. Currently the webmaster has another forum going for her projects and even if some of the people from the past community made it it is nowhere as active as ZS was.
2015 Zelda Cavern. - Here we are. In the short while we've been around I am already more than comfortable opening up in this place and having even some of the people I have met through the Spanish Speaking communities here brings me immense pleasure. @ShiroMZM , @Dlink, @Firedri are some of the people that helped and made some fond memories with our Spanish hangout.
Thank you all for being here. This place, this project and having you together means a lot to me. I am sorry if I am not leading with the example with activity but don't think I am bored or unmotivated to work here. The alliance with @Link for the opportunity to help with this community closes a full circle in what I've dreamt to do and the friends I have around. You guys are awesome for making this place what it is is. It is going well and I can only hope we keep growing and making more memories and fun times.