All The Tropes:History

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> "Our fork is of content from early June 2012. 
> Pages were collected between July 2 and July 9, 2012."
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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 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 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.

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.

30 November 2014

A Kickstarter for the TV Tropes Revitalization Project was launched.

30 December 2014

The TV Tropes Kickstarter succeded, raising $105,187.

8 January 2015

The new design for TVT was unveiled.

17 January 2015

Fast Eddie's last edit on TV Tropes. He was later kicked out by the new owners of TVT.

17 July 2015

An Indiegogo page for Miraheze was set up.

16 September 2015

Orain got compromised, its database completely wiped.

25 September 2015

All The Tropes migrated to a new wiki farm, Miraheze, and restored its database.