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* 2008-03-12 -- [http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68451051#t68451051 The 100th Day] -- Removal of Basic option for new accounts created. See also <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/203464.html">I feel very, very, very fucking sorry for certain people today.</ljlink>. | * 2008-03-12 -- [http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68451051#t68451051 The 100th Day] -- Removal of Basic option for new accounts created. See also <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/203464.html">I feel very, very, very fucking sorry for certain people today.</ljlink>. | ||
| + | * 2008-03, 15-17 -- Interest blocking from the Top 100 list discovered and then removed. | ||
* 2008-03-21 -- [http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/205203.html totally hypothetical no really i swear] -- Poll gauging people's interest in a hypothetical journalling service. | * 2008-03-21 -- [http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/205203.html totally hypothetical no really i swear] -- Poll gauging people's interest in a hypothetical journalling service. | ||
* 2008-06-21 -- <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/139024.html">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.</ljlink> | * 2008-06-21 -- <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/139024.html">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.</ljlink> | ||
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Revision as of 23:11, 16 January 2009
Expand: This should be a timeline of DW's conception. Should probably also include LJ actions as well that drove DW's formation.
A more complete history of LJ can be found on Wikipedia:Timeline of LiveJournal.
Contents
LJ History
1999
- 1999-03 --
![[info]](http://wiki.dreamwidth.net/wiki/extensions/LJ/images//userinfo.gif)
brad starts LJ
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
- 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II
- 2007-12-12 -- Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal -- Sale to SUP
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. (synecdochic).
- 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.
- 2008-06-21 -- 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. (synecdochic)
- 2008-07-15 -- the internet is serious business (synecdochic) -- synecdochic announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th.
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
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 (synecdochic).
