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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 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.
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Revision as of 03:25, 27 June 2018

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."
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> Create article using facts
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> 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. TVT becomes a "must visit" site on the Web.
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.
Early November 2013
In response to increasingly annoying questions by wiki members about their copyrights, TVT administrator/moderator Fighteer inserts language into the "Welcome to TV Tropes" page explicitly and unilaterally seizing all copyrights from contributors without their consent, thinking in his adorable childish naivete that this was both legal and an appropriate solution to uppity users who should know better than to question the wiki administration.
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 opens.
16 May 2014
All The Tropes gets its first media mention on Hacker News.
22 May 2014
All The Tropes' second version of The Forums is 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 is launched. TVT changes ownership, Fast Eddie is no longer in charge.[3][4]
30 December 2014
The TV Tropes Kickstarter succeeds, raising $105,187. [5]
3 January 2015
An Indiegogo page for the funding of Orain is set up.[6]
8 January 2015
The new design for TVT is unveiled.[7]
27 March 2015
The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for two and a half years, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.
17 July 2015
An Indiegogo page for Miraheze, a new wiki farm, is set up.[8]
16 September 2015
Orain got compromised and its database completely wiped.
25 September 2015
All The Tropes migrates to Miraheze and restored its database.
26 December 2015
All The Tropes moves to its own domain.
8 February 2016
The second new design for TVT is implemented.[9]
1 June 2016
The Forums are converted from LiquidThreads to Flow.[10]
19 July 2016
Vorticity changes 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: 🎉🎊🎆
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.
15 September 2017
The moving of the Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board is finished.
14 May 2018
All The Tropes's third version of The Forums is unveiled.
26 June 2018
  • The third new design for TVT is unveiled.[11]
  • The "Grammar and Wiki Editor Improvement Center" subforum is created.