Timeline of Roblox history

Note: This is an archive for the history of Roblox before 2009.

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

February 11th (Cont): Roblox Beta Begins (Internet Archive)

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 2006
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, this is not to be confused with "place badges".

January 2007
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 2007
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 2007
March 8th: 7 ideas for customization were thought of. Hair, Body Parts, hats and helmets, gestures, faces, shirts, and backpacks. All except gestures have been made.

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

April 2007
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 2007
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 2007
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 2007
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 2007
August 2nd: Tickets are made.

August 16th: BC is released for everyone.

August 20th: ROBLOX hits 50,000 members.

September 2007
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 2007
October 9th: MacgeekPro and EXO tour ROBLOX Headquarters, and give mods some ideas which would take 49 weeks to do. See The Next 25 Weeks Blog Post

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

November 2007
November 3rd: The first ROBLOX Review is published.

November 5th:The ROBLOX Wikia (the one you are reading!) 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 2007
All of December: Several winter wonderland parades happen across the month.

Unknown Date in 2007
Forcefields now possible on ROBLOX.

January 2008
All January: Builderman Place Design contest takes place!

January 11th: Anaminus and Gamer3D join the team.

January 16th: Image Modding is released

February 2008
February 8th: Many bugs are fixed

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

The last ROBLOX Review is published.

March 2008
All March: The Egg Hunt 2008 takes place. March 6th: Password recovery is added, and undo works more properly.

April 2008
April 2nd: A HUGE update happens. The updates are: April 9th: The Spring Block Party happens.
 * Places and Models now appear in your “My Stuff” page and in the Catalog
 * Comments on places
 * Optional email address verification
 * Sparkles
 * ClickDetector
 * Physics engine speedups
 * Reduced crashes

April 24th: A big update happens. The updates are:
 * Full-body shirts and pants
 * New character creation page
 * Favorites for places, models, clothing
 * New lighting model & specular highlights on meshes
 * Enhanced moderation system
 * New Place page allows commentary
 * ROBLOX news feed on front page
 * More robust installer

May 2008
May 14th: Decals are added.

June 2008
Nothing really notable happened, except for a few contests.

July 2008
Same here.

August 2008
August 1st: The Olympics Contest begins.

August 30th: Place version history, Walkspeed, sparkle colors and team chat are added.

September 2008
September 26th: You can now play ROBLOX as a guest to see if you would like to create an account. You can also buy Robux.

October 2008
October 11th: Yorick's Resting Place starts

November 2008
November 21st: The RoblEX and advertisements were added.

December 2008
December 18th: Heads were added.

December 22nd-29th:Miked's Ultimate Paintball gets 1,000,000 visits