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;"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 ''[[Dirty Pair]]''<ref>According to [[w:Dirty Pair|Wikipedia]], Chandler's attendance at that match directly resulted in the creation of ''[[Dirty Pair]]''.</ref> Without ''Dirty Pair'' there would have been no ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', and thus no [[TV Tropes]] page for it maintained by [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]], and thus no notice of that page by [[User:Labster]], and thus no visit by Labster to Looney Toon's forums, and thus no discovery that other Tropers were also annoyed by the then-current state of affairs at TV Tropes, and finally no desire to [[Start My Own|Start Our Own]]. It sounds like [[Insane Troll Logic]], but it's true.
;10 March 1997
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;July 2004
:[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] reads [http://boingboing.net/2004/03/11/tv-cliches-catalogue.html a blog entry] about [[TV Tropes]] and decides it might be a fun way to spend a slow afternoon.<ref>Said afternoon has lasted twenty years at this point.</ref>
;2004-2010
:60,000 tropers discover TV Tropes. TVT becomes a "must visit" site on the Web.
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:[[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).
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:[[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 [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] is established and populated by a hand-picked team of bigots, prudes and [[Lickspittle]]s, whose advice Fast Eddie ignores when it conflicts with his own prejudices.
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: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 [[And Stay Out!|permanently banned from TVT and the page is blanked and locked]]. In his wake other tropers also abandon TVT.
;2 to 9 July, 2012
:[[User:Labster|Vorticity]] runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.<ref>[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=976&pid=23932#pid23932 I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)]</ref>
;Some point between
:TVT abruptly and without warning 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.<ref>This is probably illegal as such a license change requires the approval of ''all'' contributors -- including those who are banned or otherwise ''persona non grata'' -- ahead of time, something the TVT staff did ''not'' get. At the very least it leaves TVT's copyright status in a legally dubious state.</ref>
;Fall 2012 (?)
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;13 November 2013
:The first version of [[The Forums]] opens.
;15 November 2013
:Our first vandal graces us with his presence.
;16 May 2014
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;26 March 2015
:The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the illegal 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/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 26 March 2015].</ref> Despite having done something that would have gotten him fired in any professional context, Fighteer remains a member of the TVT staff.
;17 July 2015
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;7 July 2017
:The forum host of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board (where discussion about All The Tropes is hosted) [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=3536 changes] from [[w:Yuku|Yuku]] to
;29 July 2017
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:The moving of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=12551 is finished].
<!-- [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=8565&pid=164805#pid164805 Initial announcement from September 11] -->
;14 May 2018
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:The third new design for TVT is unveiled.<ref>[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15300421760A59211300&page=1 1.8 overhaul or why did the site just change on me? (Forum thread)]</ref>
:The "Grammar and Wiki Editor Improvement Center" subforum is created.
;17 July 2018
:[[User:Robkelk|Robkelk]] becomes the first person to complete the journey from average Troper to wiki bureaucrat at All The Tropes, taking four years of regular contributions to complete the process. (The other bureaucrats at the time started at TV Tropes before the fork, or were sysadmins at Miraheze.)
;Late August 2018
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;16 October 2019
:In response to increasingly toxic behavior on the parts of single-issue editors (and, unfortunately, a wiki admin), the wiki community chose by majority vote to lock the trope [[Complete Monster]]
;13 December
:In response to anonymous users flooding the wiki with low-quality edits over the previous several weeks, a policy change was proposed, debated and implemented on the [[All The Tropes talk:Literary Criticism|Literary Criticism]] page acknowledging that anonymous editing of the wiki was a privilege and not a right, and could be disabled on a temporary or permanent basis if the situation warranted it.
;19 January 2020
:After the anonymous users ''continued'' inserting low-quality edits despite repeated tempbans and repeated attempts by admins to communicate with them (and in one case despite ''extensive'' communications with admins), the new clause on the Literary Criticism page was invoked, and anonymous editing was suspended for a period of one month.<ref>[https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:WikiForum/PROPOSAL:_Temporarily_block_all_anonymous_editing Forum - PROPOSAL: Temporarily block all anonymous editing]</ref>
;23 February 2020
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:After several more months of no objections to extending the moratorium on anonymous editing, the interval of review for the moratorium is increased to three months.
;31 August 2020
:After well-reasoned discussion in the forums, anonymous editing is re-enabled.<ref>[https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:WikiForum/Editing_is_currently_restricted_to_logged-in_Tropers_-_should_this_change%3F Forum - Editing is currently restricted to logged-in Tropers - should this change?]</ref>
;1 September 2020
:After receiving as much spam in one day as the wiki received in the preceding month, all from anonymous sources, anonymous editing is re-disabled.
;11 September 2020
:[[User:GethN7|GethN7]] takes an action that he felt was necessary to protect the wiki, locking a not-yet-existent page. Subsequent discussion on [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]]'s forums between GethN7, [[User:Labster|Labster]], Looney Toons, and [[User:Robkelk|Robkelk]] – the four [[All The Tropes:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]] of the [[All The Tropes:Contact Us|All The Tropes Moderation Staff]] at the time the action was taken – revealed that this was a controversial decision that had a perceived conflict with the wiki's stance on [[All The Tropes:Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. GethN7 chooses to step down from the Moderation Staff. (He continues to serve as moderator on the Wikia fork of ATT.)<ref>[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=13910 All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)]</ref>
;4 October 2020
:After discovering that the forum thread with the arguments for and against restricting anonymous editing had been vandalized while other forum threads were left alone, the moderation team accepts that even discussing the topic causes issues on the wiki, and decides to leave anonymous editing disabled indefinitely.
;Early December 2020
:All The Tropes becomes the target of a massive spam flood, with spammers registering accounts at a rate of one every minute or so at its worst, and spam pages being created every ten to fifteen minutes. As a result the staff activate the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation Moderation] extension, forcing all contributions by unapproved users to be reviewed by staff before they can actually be added to the wiki. Slowly, all existing contributors of quality material are added to the group of "approved" users.
;Late January 2021
:The spam flood finally abates, but the staff leaves the Moderation extension active.
;28 April 2021
:[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] rediscovers a complete copy of the TVT source for the [[Title Bin]] and restores it to the wiki.
;Late April-Early May 2021
: [https://www.higbeeassociates.com/ Higbee & Associates], a [https://matthewsag.com/so-you-got-a-copyright-infringement-demand-letter-from-higbee-associates/ noted "copyright troll"], makes five visits to the wiki.
;5 June 2021
: After a long discussion between the bureaucrats at the time ([[User:Labster|Labster]], [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]], and [[User:Robkelk|Robkelk]]), and at the request of [[User:GethN7|GethN7]], the moderator rights of GethN7 are restored.
;Late November-Early December 2022
: Fighteer, one of the last vestiges of the bad old days at TV Tropes, is forced to resign from his moderator position after mass user protest over his behavior.<ref>Further proof that the worst of the "bad old days" are gone, or at least fading away: the user feedback was ''solicited'' by the TVT administration, and negative comments were not deleted out of hand by moderators.</ref>
;1 December 2022
: Due to [https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T10033 a newly-discovered] (and as-yet unaddressed<ref>As of early 2024.</ref>) security issue, Miraheze staff disable the WikiForum extension used to run our forums.
;16 June 2023
:Miraheze's [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Board of Directors] announce [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Community_portal/Archive_40#Statement_from_the_Board their intention to cease operations and shut down Miraheze by the end of August 2023].
;19 June 2023
:Miraheze's shutdown is stayed when [[User:Labster|Labster]] and Zippx spearhead an effort to save the (wiki) farm.
;22 December 2023
:In response to confusion and misinformation, Labster launches an [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Requests_for_Comment/Reorganization_of_Miraheze RFC] on the reorganization of Miraheze and its ultimate fate.
;1 January 2024
:Voting on the RFC comes to a close with the start of the new year; a merger with/transfer of operations to the [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/WikiTide_Foundation WikiTide Foundation], a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity, receives the most votes. Within a days the process of the transfer begins.
;1 February 2024
:The transfer of Miraheze and All the Tropes to WikiTide is complete, or so nearly so as to make no difference.
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