Dreamwidth Timeline

A more complete history of LJ can be found on Timeline of LiveJournal.

= LJ History =

1999

 * 1999-03 -- brad starts LJ

2001

 * 2001-05 -- LJ clone DeadJournal is started
 * 2001-11 -- LJ clone InsaneJournal is started

2003

 * 2003-03 -- LJ clone JournalFen is started
 * This is also the year that fandom_wank is TOSed from LiveJournal, TOSed from Blurty, and ends up at JournalFen.

2005

 * 2005-01-05 -- Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! -- Six Apart purchases LiveJournal

2006

 * 2006-04-18 -- Introducing a new account level -- The introduction of Sponsored+, later to become Plus.
 * May/June -- Breastfeeding strike
 * 2006-09-26 -- Sponsored Content -- Sponsored accounts and features come into being
 * 2006-10-18 -- LJ and SUP -- Six Apart turns over the Russian side of LJ to SUP

2007

 * 2007-05-29 -- Strikethrough, Phase I
 * 2007-06-21 -- Hypothetically, let's say that you had a chance to sit down with the person who's going to be the future buck-stops-here decision-maker for LJ.
 * 2007-07-15 -- the internet is serious business -- synecdochic announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th.
 * 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II
 * 2007-08 -- LJ Clone Scribblet is born
 * 2007-12-12 -- Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal -- Sale to SUP
 * 2007-12-07ish -- GreatestJournal diaspora starts. Users are told to start migrating to another site.

= Pre-Dreamwidth -- ie, Hypothetical Journal =

March 2008

 * 2008-03-12 -- The 100th Day -- Removal of Basic option for new accounts created. See also I feel very, very, very fucking sorry for certain people today..
 * 2008-03, 15-17 -- Interest blocking from the Top 100 list discovered and then removed.
 * 2008-03-21 -- totally hypothetical no really i swear -- Poll gauging people's interest in a hypothetical journalling service.

April 2008

 * 2008-04 -- Scribblit changes to Inksome

May 2008

 * 2008-05 -- Inksome opens to public paid accounts

= Dreamwidth Development =

June 2008

 * 2008-06-11 -- Announcing Dreamwidth Studios. Coming Summer 2008. -- The announcement of DW's conception.
 * 2008-06-16 -- Poll: Mood Themes -- Poll about mood themes.
 * 2008-06-13 -- S2 Styles Poll. -- Poll about S2 layouts.
 * 2008-06-24 -- straw poll #19384 -- Poll about top-level menu items in the LJ scheme.

July 2008

 * 2008-07-02 -- Dreamwidth needs mood themes! -- a public call for people to design mood themes.
 * 2008-07-30 -- I keep forgetting! and this -- DW is open for volunteer development.

August 2008

 * 2008-08-08 -- First quote in #dw IRC QDB -- A quotes database for Dreamwidth's IRC channels is opened on qdb.zhzh.org, and the first quote appears. (QDB is later moved.)

January 2009

 * 2009-01-06 -- The Grim Purge -- LJ lays off half of the San Francisco office employees, including the entire design team. Dreamwidth kicks into high gear: see Rest In Peace ( xb95 ) and FYI.
 * 2009-01-07 -- GreatestJournal dies completely, after having limped along in zombie form for the past six months.

= Dreamwidth Begins =

February 2009

 * 2009-02-14 -- Closed beta launch. Accounts are given to the beta testers and testing begins.
 * 2009-02-16 -- dw-progress: 16 February 2009 dw-news comes into use.

March 2009

 * 2009-03-09 -- Progress Report: 9 March 2009 -- First code tour (list of resolved bugs)
 * 2009-03-16 -- Progress Report: March 16, 2009 -- Mention of "code bootcamp" (#dw_kindergarten)
 * 2009-03-23 -- Progress Report: 23 March 2009 -- core2 style system backend released.
 * 2009-03-26 -- Open Beta Launch Date Set -- Date of 2009-04-30 (evening, EST) set for open beta; two-phase seed account sale announced.
 * 2009-03-30 -- Progress Report: 30 March 2009

April 2009
(lots of missing stuff goes here)
 * 2009-04-07 -- http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2666.html
 * 2009-04-08 -- http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2826.html
 * 2009-04-14 -- LJ Support IRC moves to its own server: http://community.livejournal.com/irctownhall/8069.html
 * 2009-04-30 -- Open beta launch.

(lots of missing stuff goes here)

May 2009

 * Mark and Janine married; ceremony performed by Denise

(lots of missing stuff goes here)

March 2010

 * 2010-03-07 -- "Six Weeks for Dreamwidth" festival proposed: http://erda.dreamwidth.org/44698.html (later became three_weeks_for_dw )
 * 2010-03-23 -- IRC move to Freenode finalized; old IRC server decomissioned.

April 2010

 * 2010-04-05 -- fu joining full time.
 * 2010-04-07 -- fu 's first news post.
 * 2010-04-10 - 2010-04-15 (Sophie, got a more exact date?) -- http://qdb.dreamwidth.net/ split from old LiveJournal QDB, in separate hosting


 * Late April -- the outboundlink LiveJournal fiasco; afuna explains the technical reasons for her discomfort. Drives a number of users to (at least temporarily) stop crossposting; some are driven to fully switch.


 * 2010-04-26 -- three-weeks-for-dw festival begins.
 * 2010-04-28 -- Freenode approves Dreamwidth's group application & information on cloaks added to IRC page.

May 2010

 * 2010-05-03 - 2010-05-06 -- mark and denise attend Web 2.0 Expo.
 * 2010-05-06 -- vulva makes a public comment complaining about an inappropriate comment from a LiveJournal staff member on material that was supposed to have been locked, which sparks a round of general as well as specific discussion about staff access to secured material on social media.
 * 2010-05-09 -- mark speaks about staff access to secured content on Dreamwidth, discussion of a FAQ entry about this.
 * 2010-05-10 -- denise makes a news entry involving staff access to secured content on Dreamwidth
 * 2010-05-26 - Denise and Sarah married: http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/21237.html

June 2010

 * 2010-06-06 - "Account Contents" section added to the Privacy Policy (announced in dw_news June 08).
 * 2010-06-08 - Tag merge and cut expansion. http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/21507.html
 * 2010-06-15 - inline cut tag expansion a big hit
 * 2010-06-17 - Milestone: Poll 3500
 * 2010-06-25 - Bare-bones S2 style for syndicated accounts: http://changelog.dreamwidth.org/649976.html
 * 2010-06-30 - ToS team roundup #3: http://dw-biz.dreamwidth.org/5624.html

July 2010
= The Future =

July 2010: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010


 * Cross-site Authenticated Reading List
 * Entry creation/edit redesign
 * Full launch -- previously expected for Q309