The Zone Gazette was created by JohnVHarris, Fun4Cat, Cstar1, SoftAsSilk and Lurch63 in 2001. None of us worked for Delphi*, but we were enthusiastic users, and eager to help foster the community that we found ourselves in.
From August 18, 2001 until February 2008 (with a lengthy hiatus in 2007), The Zone Gazette was the community newspaper for Delphi Forums. Run by JohnVHarris, Fun4Cat and Cstar1 along with many, many other staff, guest writers, interviewers and delivery people throughout the years, the "paper" was always informative, always positive, and always fun. The Zone Gazette was published every three weeks for six years, usually after a grueling 18 hour writing, editing, paste-up and chat-about-everything marathon.
Posts from the first five volumes are now available, the final volumes covering our last years in operation will be released soon. The messages you'll now see in the forum are the final edited versions I submitted to John for uploading. The titles, messages and dates are presented just as I gave them to him. The only changes that have been made were to move them from his "Editor's Desk" folder to the new Volume folders.
(*I didn't work for Delphi when we started TZG. That came later, in 2002.)
Between February of 2003 and October of 2010, there was a Land Known as Tyran on Talk City. This was the oldest and most popular RPG (Role Playing Game) forum on Talk City, though the history of the game is much older. Dawnstar was the forum owner, and when her membership lapsed, the forum reverted to Talk City. Her later death put the forum in a semi-permanent limbo, since under the practices we'd established, the forum could not go to another owner.
Now, 3 years later, with the agreement of the current Tyran game owner, Jessimi, (Tyran: Perceptions of Destiny) we've opened the archives, so the wonderful stories can be seen again, forever frozen in time.