The History Of Graal?
 

I know it was inspired by Zelda, but a timeline must be better for seeing how graal develpoed time by time.

AGREED

And this is the part where iPhone graalians feel new and clueless, just like I have so many times before.

I think its started in 1997?

Yes it started in about 1997 as a java or c whatever game. Later on he published GS1 (in about 2001, was developed before though) and in about 2006/2007 he released GS2. GS stands for GraalScript and as the name does give the hint, it´s an own scripting language of Graal. For histories of servers and such I´d suggest you making your own researches on the official forums. Can be fun :)

I think its was coded for gs2 in python and something else but here is a link yo see the dev side of things http://www.graal.net/index.php/Main_Page

Was it supposed to be like this?
Look around here

heres a cool video about the Gmap evolution. gives you an idea of the history somewhat.

In the days before life, there was cat. First, he created sea, then he forgot the order of the other things he made, and brought fire to graal. Then, Stefan came and ate him and stole graal. THE END.

That story is so sad, it brang tears to my eyes )':

1999 seems like graal when it was the time of graal lolz jabba wanna nipple pinchie

Just asking, I don't know if you would know but why did the server get wiped two time?

New managers who would prefer to start all over rather than build onto previous manager's work. (Yeah, it's controversial.)

no not really

first wipe: stefan introduced NPC server which was not implemented on classic. it was very out of date so it was wiped

second wipe: mostly crappy out of date scripts which no longer worked and caused tons of problems.

thor was manager before the 2009 wipe too, so it wasnt really a power change. it was mostly just in need of an update, and it was easier to wipe the whole thing and start over.