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:[[Joss Whedon]] brought us a little show called [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. |
:[[Joss Whedon]] brought us a little show called ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. |
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:The wiki that was to become [[TV Tropes]] got its first edit. |
:The wiki that was to become [[TV Tropes]] got its first edit. |
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:[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] reads a blog entry about [[TV Tropes]] and decides it might be a fun way to spend a slow afternoon. |
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;October 26, 2010 |
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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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;April 2012 |
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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 Eddied responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics suitable to persons over 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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Revision as of 13:11, 25 August 2014
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.
- 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.
- 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 Eddied responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics suitable to persons over 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.
- 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.)
- 9 July 2014
- Our first actual media mention, via a link from Salon.com about foreign language jokes in films.