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* 2007-08 -- LJ Clone Scribblet is born | * 2007-08 -- LJ Clone Scribblet is born | ||
* 2007-12-12 -- [http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2007/12/six_apart_annou.html Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal] -- Sale to SUP | * 2007-12-12 -- [http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2007/12/six_apart_annou.html 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 = | = Pre-Dreamwidth -- ie, Hypothetical Journal = | ||
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* 2009-01-06 -- [http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/83519.html The Grim Purge] -- LJ lays off half of the San Francisco office employees, including the entire design team. Dreamwidth kicks into high gear: see <ljlink href="http://xb95.livejournal.com/635394.html">Rest In Peace</ljlink> and <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/302379.html">FYI</ljlink>. | * 2009-01-06 -- [http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/83519.html The Grim Purge] -- LJ lays off half of the San Francisco office employees, including the entire design team. Dreamwidth kicks into high gear: see <ljlink href="http://xb95.livejournal.com/635394.html">Rest In Peace</ljlink> and <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/302379.html">FYI</ljlink>. | ||
| + | * 2009-01-07 -- GreatestJournal dies completely, after having limped along in zombie form for the past six months. | ||
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* 2009-02-14 -- [http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-progress/2009-February/000011.html Closed beta launch]. Accounts are given to the beta testers and testing begins. | * 2009-02-14 -- [http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-progress/2009-February/000011.html Closed beta launch]. Accounts are given to the beta testers and testing begins. | ||
Revision as of 03:03, 6 March 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
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. (synecdochic)
- 2007-07-15 -- the internet is serious business (synecdochic) -- 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. (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.
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.
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).
- 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.
The Future
- Mid-April -- Open beta is expected to start sometime here.
