History of Roblox

Over the 7 years that ROBLOX has been around, it has quite a large history.

Pre-2004
1963: David Baszucki was born.

1990s: ROBLOX was thought up of as a game. However, since there was a lack of technology to hold a 3-D multiplayer game on the internet at that time, it was not made.

2004
June 30th: ROBLOX's first user named Admin joins ROBLOX. He was banned and was moved to ID 18, most likely to see if the bans worked or not.

September: ROBLOX was in Alpha mode.

2005
February 11th: ROBLOX's very early alpha ends

May 22nd: ROBLOX (the user) joins ROBLOX.

June 24th: ROBLOX is re-released to the public. Unlike ROBLOX's games, they had minigames, which you can earn points from.

2006
Mid-2006: Games go multi-player.

June 21st: Telamon joins ROBLOX.

December
December 1st: Crossroads is released.

December 8th: The ROBLOX Blog is created. The first posts starts with a line from the Chronicles of Roblox.

December 11th: ROBLOX reaches 10,000 members.

December 21st: Santa's Winter Stronghold is revealed.

December 22nd: Badges first appear.

January
January 8th: 44 ROBLOXians have the Bloxxer Badge.

January 9th: On this day, many things are revealed. It includes the Admin Badge, and PM history and notifications. But the most famous update was the animations that made ROBLOXians look like they were walking.

January 12th: You could now color your body to different colors, and wear T-Shirts.

January 17th: The Homestead Furniture Making Contest starts, making it the first contest.

January 20th: The first and original Happy Home in Robloxia, is made.

January 26th: Teams are tested, but not released

January 31st: Ever went to a game before the 31st and had a spammer, or flamer? Well, on the 31st, they added the Report Abuse option.

February
February 5th: The Official ROBLOX Wiki is made.

February 16th: The Update Bomb happens. It brings Tools, Teams, made the website faster, and bugs are fixed.

February 17th: The Copylock feature is made.

March
March 8th: 7 ideas for customization were thought of. Hair, Body Parts, hats and helmets, gestures, faces, shirts, and backpacks. All of those were made in the future.

March 27th: More updates. Supersafe Chat, Image Mods, custom skyboxes, and a new profile page.

April
April 1st: An April Fools joke happens, where ROBLOX was bought by Google and was going to be turned into Gooblox. Later, Telamon bought Gooblox.com, which redirects to ROBLOX.

April 12th: Builders Club, Swords, Paintball guns, and new skyboxes appear.

May
May 1st: More updates, again! Spawns, bugs fixed, a max Player cap, a really really early beta of servers, and places now have their own pages.

May 3rd: Hair is tested, but fails. It will reappear.

May 14th: ROBUX is made, replacing "ROBLOX Points" as the previous currency.

May 21st: The wealthiest ROBLOXian (With ROBUX) is miked, with 3,246 ROBUX.

May 23rd: Hats are shown in a sneak peek.

May 30th: Hats are added to ROBLOX. Also, Clockwork joins the admins.

June
June 2nd-13th: The Domino Contest is held. The most famous winner of the contest was Fleskhjerta, by a YouTube video.

June 13th: Wookong joins the ROBLOX team. Also, FFJosh, MrDoomBringer, Gamer3D, Cruss Kilderstohe and Miked help the team.

June 14th: ROBLOX hits 30,000 members, and Bspurrell suggests the Veteran Badge, which was made on that day.

June 18th: ROBLOX now has 410,687 ROBUX in circulation.

June 29th: On this day, onward, there were IP Bans, and you could now sell shirts, play CTF, use RocketPropulsion objects, and experience less bugs.

July
July 23rd: ROBLOX hits 40,000 members. Interesting fact: If ROBLOXia were a real country, it would rank 207th in population out of 226 countries that appear in the CIA World Factbook (Including ROBLOXia) Not bad for an online game. Once it had a million players, it would be ranked 157 out of the 226 countries. And when it had 10 million, it would be ranked 82 out of 226. So far, it has over 17,000,000 users, which would make ROBLOX 60 or 59 out of 226.

August
August 2nd: Tickets are made.

August 16th: BC is released for everyone.

August 20th: ROBLOX hits 50,000 members.

September
September 4th: ReeseMcBlox joins the ROBLOX team.

September 13th: Mrs. X interviews Builderman. It is learned from the Blog Entry that he was 44 that day, went to Stanford, and has 3 kids.

October
October 9th: MacgeekPro and EXO tour ROBLOX Headquarters.

October 30th: Bevels, a search bar for the catalog, and comments are released.

November
November 3rd: The first ROBLOX Review is published.

November 5th:The ROBLOX Wikia was made.

November 13th: A cave caves in, and Wookong almost died.

November 14th: HolyMAC, JacobXXduel, Rombom, Sirloin and Koopa join the ROBLOX team. Also, ROBLOX has better graphics.

November 17th: ROBLOX T-shirts (and goodies) are for sale.

December
All of December: Several winter wonderland parades happen across the month.

Unknown Date
Forcefields now possible on ROBLOX.

2008
Someone really needs to fix it. I'm too busy fixing the rest of the article.

January
January 11th: Anaminus and Gamer3D join the team.

January 16th: Image Modding is released

February
February 24th: ROBLOX now uses Paypal to buy BC.

April
Easter: The Egg Hunt 2008 takes place.

September

 * You can now play ROBLOX as a guest to see if you would like to create an account.

Unknown Date
The last ROBLOX Review is published.
 * Builderman Place Design contest takes place!

Comments are now allowed at places.

2009

 * Official Robloxian "groups" introduced, along with status updates, "Best Friends" and the Feed, all seen on the new home page under "My Roblox".
 * Mid-2009: Player-made sounds are removed from ROBLOX. Player-made decals now require moderation to be uploaded to ROBLOX.

2010

 * Official Contest Page introduced; first contest on the page is to "Build a school where superheros would go".


 * New privacy features.


 * BC can be paid with Cell Phones, by Paymo, But sadly, the paymo option doesn't appear.


 * Facebook connect returns.


 * New theme. Users can select this theme, or the older themes.


 * Njay gets interviewed.


 * Roblox's Celebrates its Birthday - 5 years of multiplayer games.


 * OBC gets a new theme. With (According to the blog) "Post-apocalyptic buildings, green smoke, skeleton pirates, and ninjas."


 * Toys 'Я' Us now has ROBLOX gift cards


 * 7-11 now has ROBLOX gift cards.


 * A new christmas theme comes to roblox until christmas is over.


 * Builders club-only places appear. BCers and non-BCers alike get angry.

2011
August 1st; Roblox's first Roblox Rally is a hit on August 1st, 2011 in San Francisco.
 * Ambient occlusion is released.
 * Ingame screen recorder is released.
 * New users can sign up with a gender.
 * Ingame screen recording for XP users was released.
 * Group owners can "ally" and "enemy" other groups.
 * Users can declare a primary group.
 * Chrome users can directly launch Roblox in Browser.
 * A basic iPod/iPhone app for Roblox is released. User can't play yet- only check messages and the like.
 * A new and modern player list is added.It lets you to send in-game friend requests
 * A futuristic respawn animation is updated, presumably by Telamon
 * Teleportation between places (TeleportService) is added, which Telamon has been trying to do for a number of years.
 * Basic data-persistance is added.


 * Roblox's first television commercial is made and launched.
 * Seth Deesub gets a million Robux by Make a Wish Foundation.