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.[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.
- 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.
- 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 opened.
- 16 May 2014
- All The Tropes got its first media mention on Hacker News.
- 22 May 2014
- All The Tropes' second version of The Forums was unveiled.[2]
- 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 was launched. TVT changes ownership, Fast Eddie is no longer in charge.[3][4]
- 30 December 2014
- The TV Tropes Kickstarter succeeded, raising $105,187. [5]
- 3 January 2015
- An Indiegogo page for the funding of Orain was set up.[6]
- 8 January 2015
- The new design for TVT was unveiled.[7]
- 17 July 2015
- An Indiegogo page for Miraheze, a new wiki farm, was set up.[8]
- 16 September 2015
- Orain got compromised and its database completely wiped.
- 25 September 2015
- All The Tropes migrated to Miraheze and restored its database.
- 26 December 2015
- All The Tropes moved to its own domain.
- 8 February 2016
- The second new design for TVT was implemented.[9]
- 1 June 2016
- The Forums were converted from LiquidThreads to Flow.[10]
- 19 July 2016
- Vorticity changed 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: ๐๐๐
- 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.
- 11 September 2017
- The moving of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board is finished.
- โ I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)
- โ Our new forums are finally up! (ATT thread)
- โ Big Things Happening on TV Tropes
- โ Eddie wanna be kickstartin' somethin' (ATT thread)
- โ TV Tropes Kickstarter
- โ Orain Indiegogo
- โ New Design and Code Update - January 8, 2015
- โ Miraheze Indiegogo
- โ TV Tropes 1. 3 Released! (Forum thread)
- โ Conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow (global) (ATT thread)