Dreamwidth Timeline

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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

  • 2001-05 -- DeadJournal is started
  • 2001-11 -- InsaneJournal is started

2003

  • 2003-03 -- 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

The Future

  • Mid-April -- Open beta is expected to start sometime here.