History of Roblox



Over the 7 years that ROBLOX is around, it has a pretty big history. This list also includes the employee's birthdates, but ROBLOX begins in 2004.

1964

 * David Baszucki was born.

2004

 * ROBLOX's first user named Admin joins ROBLOX. Admin is another account of Erik.Cassel's.


 * Roblox was in Alpha mode.

2005

 * ROBLOX (the user) joins ROBLOX.


 * ROBLOX is released to the public.

2006

 * Games go multi-player.


 * The ROBLOX Blog is created. The first posts starts with a line from the Chronicles of Roblox.


 * Crossroads was built.


 * ROBLOX reaches 10,000 members.


 * Telamon joins ROBLOX.


 * Santa's Winter Stronghold is revealed.


 * Badges first appear.

2007

 * 44 ROBLOXians have the Bloxxer Badge.


 * Lots of things are made. Admin Badges, PM notifications, Message History, but most of all, animated ROBLOXians.


 * Color-Changing and T-shirts appear.


 * The first ever contest is held. The Homestead Furniture Making Contest.


 * The first and original Happy Home in Robloxia, is made.


 * Teams are tested.


 * The Report Abuse button is put into games.


 * The Official ROBLOX Wiki is made.


 * Telamon teaches scripting for the first time.


 * The Update Bomb happens. It brings Tools, Teams, made the website faster, and bugs are fixed.


 * The Copylock feature is made.


 * 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.


 * More updates. Supersafe Chat, Image Mods, custom skyboxes, and a new profile page.


 * 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.


 * Builders Club, Swords, Paintball guns, and new skyboxes appear.


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


 * Hair is tested, but fails. It will reappear.


 * ROBUX is made.


 * The wealthiest ROBLOXian (With ROBUX) is miked, with 3,246 ROBUX.


 * Hats are shown in a sneak peek.


 * Hats are added to ROBLOX. Also, Clockwork joins the admins.


 * The Domino Contest is held. The most famous winner of the contest was Fleskhjerta, by a YouTube video.


 * Wookong joins the ROBLOX team. Also, FFJosh, MrDoomBringer, Gamer3D, Cruss Kilderstohe and Miked help the team.


 * ROBLOX hits 30,000 members, and Bspurrell suggests the Veteran Badge, which was made on that day.


 * ROBLOX now has 410,687 ROBUX in circulation.


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


 * 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.


 * Tickets are made.


 * BC is released for everyone.


 * ROBLOX hits 50,000 members.


 * ReeseMcBlox joins the ROBLOX team.


 * Mrs. X interviews Builderman. It is learned from the Blog Entry that he was 44 that day, went to Stanford, and has 4 kids.


 * MacgeekPro and EXO tour ROBLOX Headquarters.
 * roope123456789 joined


 * ROBLOX Mod's have 25 weeks.http://blog.roblox.com/?p=195


 * The first ever ROBLOX Review is published.


 * A cave caves in and Wookong almost dies.


 * HolyMAC, JacobXXduel, Rombom, Sirloin, and Koopa join the ROBLOX team.


 * Better graphics.


 * ROBLOX t-shirts for sale!


 * Several winter wonderland parades happen across the month.


 * Forcefields now possible on ROBLOX.


 * The ROBLOX Wikia was made.

2008

 * Anaminus and Gamer3D join the team.


 * Builderman Place Design contest takes place!


 * The last ROBLOX Review is published.


 * Egg Hunt 2008 takes place.


 * Comments now allowed at places.


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

2009

 * Official Robloxian "groups" introduced, along with status updates, "Best Friends" and the Feed, all seen on the new home page under "My 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

 * Shadows and sounds are released.


 * Ingame screen recorder is released.


 * New users can sign up with a gender.


 * Ilikeshrimp joins ROBLOX


 * 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 is added, which Telamon has been trying to do for a number of years.
 * Basic data-persistance is added.
 * Roblox's first Roblox Rally scheduled on August 1st, 2011 in San Francisco.
 * Roblox's first television commercial is made and launched.