All The Tropes:History

You see a conspicuous lack of nitty-gritty. > Add facts > "Our fork is of content from early June 2012. > Pages were collected between July 2 and July 9, 2012." > Done > Create article using facts ERROR. Human intervention required for article creation. > Print timeline Microsoft Printer Setup returned with exit code -237. > Say timeline "timeline" > Dammit why don't you work You don't know what words mean, do you. > List Timeline


 * "probably in 1978"
 * Author A. Bertram Chandler attends a match of the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling league. If this hadn't happened, there would be no All The Tropes.


 * 2 to 9 July, 2012
 * Vorticity runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.


 * 1 November 2013
 * The first page of All The Tropes is imported to the Orain servers, Blaxploitation. The page was randomly selected by Perl's hash algorithm at some point in the conversion process.


 * 13 November 2013
 * The first version of The Forums are opened.


 * 16 May 2014
 * All The Tropes got its first media mention on Hacker News.


 * 9 June 2014
 * The first time we passed 200 edits in a single day to the Main namespace, thus filling up Recent Changes. (Excludes times where we were moving a bunch of pages, because it's easy to get 15 in one go there.)