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:The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for a year and a half, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20150326011500/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page |
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Revision as of 01:37, 5 October 2018
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.[context?]
- 10 March 1997
- Joss Whedon brought us a little show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- April 2004
- The wiki that was to become TV Tropes got its first edit.
- July 2004
- Looney Toons reads a blog entry about TV Tropes and decides it might be a fun way to spend a slow afternoon.
- 2004-2010
- 60,000 tropers discover TV Tropes. TVT becomes a "must visit" site on the Web.
- October 26, 2010
- The Google Incident, aka The Situation. Google suddenly and without notice shuts off all advertising to TV Tropes, in response to a determination that TVT was not compliant with their AdSense guidelines. TVT responds by implementing various low-impact methods such as requiring registration to see "non-compliant" pages (without ads).
- April 2012
- The Second Google Incident. Responding to another threat to TVT's advertising revenue due to Google being informed of "inappropriate" content, Fast Eddie responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics unsuitable for persons under the age of ten are culled and a censorship regime is imposed on the entire wiki. The P5 is established and populated by a hand-picked team of bigots, prudes and Lickspittles, whose advice Fast Eddie ignores when it conflicts with his own prejudices.
- May 2, 2012
- Looney Toons posts an expression of disgust and disappointment about the censorship regime on his TVT user page, explaining why he cannot in good conscience remain a member of the wiki. Within 12 hours he is permanently banned from TVT and the page is blanked and locked. In his wake other tropers also abandon TVT.
- 2 to 9 July, 2012
- Vorticity runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.[1]
- Some point between July 8 and July 17, 2012
- TVT abruptly changes its licensing from the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- Early November 2013
- In response to increasingly annoying questions by wiki members about their copyrights, TVT administrator/moderator Fighteer inserts language into the "Welcome to TV Tropes" page explicitly and unilaterally seizing all copyrights from contributors without their consent[2], thinking in his adorable childish naivete that this was both legal and an appropriate solution to uppity users who should know better than to question the wiki administration.
- 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 opens.
- 16 May 2014
- All The Tropes gets its first media mention on Hacker News.
- 22 May 2014
- All The Tropes' second version of The Forums is unveiled.[3]
- 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.)
- 9 July 2014
- Our first actual media mention, via a link from Salon.com about foreign language jokes in films.
- 30 November 2014
- A Kickstarter for the TV Tropes Revitalization Project is launched. TVT changes ownership, Fast Eddie is no longer in charge.[4][5]
- 30 December 2014
- The TV Tropes Kickstarter succeeds, raising $105,187. [6]
- 3 January 2015
- An Indiegogo page for the funding of Orain is set up.[7]
- 8 January 2015
- The new design for TVT is unveiled.[8]
- 26 March 2015
- The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for a year and a half, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.[9]
- 17 July 2015
- An Indiegogo page for Miraheze, a new wiki farm, is set up.[10]
- 16 September 2015
- Orain got compromised and its database completely wiped.
- 25 September 2015
- All The Tropes migrates to Miraheze and restored its database.
- 26 December 2015
- All The Tropes moves to its own domain.
- 8 February 2016
- The second new design for TVT is implemented.[11]
- 1 June 2016
- The Forums are converted from LiquidThreads to Flow.[12]
- 19 July 2016
- Vorticity changes his username to Labster.
- 7 July 2017
- The forum host of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board (where discussion about All The Tropes is hosted) changes from Yuku to Tapatalk.
- 29 July 2017
- All The Tropes celebrates its 1000th user to register with a few emoji: 🎉🎊🎆
- 3 August 2017
- Looney Tunes, with the help of Ankhani and Labster, begins moving the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board from Tapatalk to his own website.
- 15 September 2017
- The moving of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board is finished.
- 14 May 2018
- All The Tropes's third version of The Forums is unveiled.
- 26 June 2018
- The third new design for TVT is unveiled.[13]
- The "Grammar and Wiki Editor Improvement Center" subforum is created.
- Late August 2018
- Our benevolent overlords at Miraheze implement a limited version of Matomo Analytics, allowing us for the first time to see a crude representation of inbound links to the wiki. The "Weirdest Inbound Link of the Day" page is re-established.
- ↑ I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)
- ↑ Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 22 January 2014; see the final section, "Your Rights (Legal Stuff)".
- ↑ Our new forums are finally up! (ATT thread)
- ↑ Big Things Happening on TV Tropes
- ↑ Eddie wanna be kickstartin' somethin' (ATT thread)
- ↑ TV Tropes Kickstarter
- ↑ Orain Indiegogo
- ↑ New Design and Code Update - January 8, 2015
- ↑ Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 26 March 2015.
- ↑ Miraheze Indiegogo
- ↑ TV Tropes 1. 3 Released! (Forum thread)
- ↑ Conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow (global) (ATT thread)
- ↑ 1.8 overhaul or why did the site just change on me? (Forum thread)