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= The Future =
 
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* Mid-April -- Open beta is expected to start sometime here.
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* 2009-04-30 -- Open beta is scheduled.
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* Northern Hemisphere Summer/Fall -- Launch is expected sometime in here, possibly overlapping with [[Roadmap#Milestone:_Q309|Q309]]
  
 
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Revision as of 06:19, 10 April 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.

LJ History

1999

  • 1999-03 -- [info]brad starts LJ

2001

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

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

Pre-Dreamwidth -- ie, Hypothetical Journal

March 2008

April 2008

  • 2008-04 -- Scribblit changes to Inksome

May 2008

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

Dreamwidth Development

June 2008

July 2008

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 ([info]xb95) and FYI ([info]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

  • 2009-04-30 -- Open beta is scheduled.
  • Northern Hemisphere Summer/Fall -- Launch is expected sometime in here, possibly overlapping with Q309