User blog:S8776459/the history of roblox

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 * January 20th, 1963: David Baszucki is born.
 * December 16th, 1967: Erik Cassel is born.
 * c. 1989: Interactive Physics, a program written by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel for educational purposes is released.[1]
 * c. 1989/1990: David Baszucki creates a 2D Physics Simulator that underwent the name "Interactive Physics", years later after selling millions of copies, and seeing the games others have made by simply goofing around with his program, Baszucki had imagined the first ideas of ROBLOX.

Warning: From here, this is all pure speculation. All of this below until 2004 has been debated. Edit
This texture (made c. 1998) was used for x and y vector sizing.
 * c. early to mid-1990s: ROBLOX was thought up of as a game. However, since there was a lack of technology to support a 3-D multiplayer game on the Internet at that time, it was yet not made.[citation needed] The sword texture that was created on January 19, 2002.
 * August 31st, 1993: Luke Weber (Stickmasterluke) is born.
 * February 25th, 1995: Jackson Fowler (NerfModder) is born.
 * c. 1996: Work on ROBLOX officially begins.
 * c. 1997: ROBLOX is prototyped, under the name "DynaBlocks".
 * c. 1998: An early "test" texture is made. It can still be found by searching through textures on the ROBLOX website.
 * c. 1999: The first official ROBLOX meeting takes place.[2]


 * c. January 19th, 2002: A basic polygonal sword texture is created. A low-quality snap shot of a semi-popular game in 2003 GoBlocks: John's Puzzle Game (c. 2003)
 * c. late 2002/early 2003: David Baszucki, and his team eventually decide to go with the name GoBlocks.[citation needed] A low quality snap shot of an old Driving game, featuring a winning model, "Dump Truck" in an old 2003 GoBlocks building contest. (c. 2003)
 * c. December 12th, 2003: Jim Stevens of the ROBLOX Corporation registers a site called "goblox.com" which was going to be the site name, as they were registering with "godaddy.com". The early goblox name is also thought to be a partial inspiration to why the admins pulled the "Gooblox" prank in 2007. He also registers the "DynaBlocks" site.