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* 2007-07-15 -- <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/145026.html">the internet is serious business</ljlink> -- <ljuser>synecdochic</ljuser> announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th. | * 2007-07-15 -- <ljlink href="http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/145026.html">the internet is serious business</ljlink> -- <ljuser>synecdochic</ljuser> announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th. | ||
* 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II | * 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II | ||
| − | * 2007-08 -- | + | * 2007-08 -- Scribblet is born |
* 2007-12-12 -- [http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2007/12/six_apart_annou.html Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal] -- Sale to SUP | * 2007-12-12 -- [http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2007/12/six_apart_annou.html Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal] -- Sale to SUP | ||
Revision as of 00:50, 6 March 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.
Contents
LJ History
1999
- 1999-03 --
![[info]](http://wiki.dreamwidth.net/wiki/extensions/LJ/images//userinfo.gif)
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
- 2005-01-05 -- Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! -- Six Apart purchases LiveJournal
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
- 2007-05-29 -- Strikethrough, Phase I
- 2007-06-21 -- Hypothetically, let's say that you had a chance to sit down with the person who's going to be the future buck-stops-here decision-maker for LJ. (synecdochic)
- 2007-07-15 -- the internet is serious business (synecdochic) -- synecdochic announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th.
- 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II
- 2007-08 -- Scribblet is born
- 2007-12-12 -- Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal -- Sale to SUP
Pre-Dreamwidth -- ie, Hypothetical Journal
March 2008
- 2008-03-12 -- The 100th Day -- Removal of Basic option for new accounts created. See also I feel very, very, very fucking sorry for certain people today. (synecdochic).
- 2008-03, 15-17 -- Interest blocking from the Top 100 list discovered and then removed.
- 2008-03-21 -- totally hypothetical no really i swear -- Poll gauging people's interest in a hypothetical journalling service.
April 2008
- 2008-04 -- Scribblit changes to Inksome
May 2008
- 2008-05 -- Inksome opens to public paid accounts
Dreamwidth Development
June 2008
- 2008-06-11 -- Announcing Dreamwidth Studios. Coming Summer 2008. -- The announcement of DW's conception.
- 2008-06-16 -- Poll: Mood Themes -- Poll about mood themes.
- 2008-06-13 -- S2 Styles Poll. -- Poll about S2 layouts.
- 2008-06-24 -- straw poll #19384 -- Poll about top-level menu items in the LJ scheme.
July 2008
- 2008-07-02 -- Dreamwidth needs mood themes! -- a public call for people to design mood themes.
- 2008-07-30 -- I keep forgetting! and this -- DW is open for volunteer development.
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 (xb95) and FYI (synecdochic).
- 2009-02-14 -- Closed beta launch. Accounts are given to the beta testers and testing begins.
The Future
- Mid-April -- Open beta is expected to start sometime here.
