Timeline of Roblox history

This article is an archive for the history of ROBLOX prior to 2009.

2003 or earlier

 * January 20th, 1963: David Baszucki was born.
 * December 16th, 1967: Erik Cassel was born.
 * c. 1989: Interactive Physics, the first game made by ROBLOX Corporation and the basis of the ROBLOX physics engine, was developed and released.


 * 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 not made.
 * August 31st, 1993: Luke Weber (Stickmasterluke) was born.
 * February 25th, 1995: NerfModder was born.
 * c. 1996: Work on ROBLOX officially began.
 * c. 1998: An early "test" texture was made. It can still be found by searching through textures on the ROBLOX website.
 * c. 1999: The first official ROBLOX meeting takes place.
 * c. 2001 – January 19th, 2002: A basic polygonal sword texture was created.
 * December 12th, 2003: Jim Stevens of the ROBLOX Corporation registered 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 registered the "DynaBlocks" site.

2004

 * January 30th: The ROBLOX site was registered by Robert Underwood of the ROBLOX Corporation at 8:43 AM.
 * Feb – June: The site and software undergone testing and further development.
 * June 30th: ROBLOX's first user called Admin joins ROBLOX. He was later terminated and was moved from ID 1 to ID 18, most likely to see if the bans worked or not (but is still unknown why he was terminated).
 * June 30th: The qa account is created.
 * July 1st: david.baszucki makes his account.
 * July 2nd: erik.cassel creates his account.
 * July 31st: david.baszucki created a game called "Spasmotron2 Vs. Wimpotron2".Spas_vs_wimp_thmb.png
 * November 5th: david.baszucki made the "child on skateboard" model. Also, 1,318 models were made.
 * Unknown date: Some pictures were taken from ROBLOX's old site.

2005

 * February 11th: ROBLOX's very early alpha testing ends, and beta testing begins.
 * February 13th: erik2 joins ROBLOX.
 * February 23rd: Cuyler joins ROBLOX.
 * May 22nd: ROBLOX (user) joins ROBLOX.
 * June 6th: The "Steer the Spheres" contest began.
 * June 24th: ROBLOX is re-released to the public. Unlike ROBLOX's games, they had minigames, which you can earn points from.
 * June 25th: ROBLOX's first official account, John Doe, was created. Also, horsey joins ROBLOX.
 * June 25th or 26th: ROBLOX's second official account is created. The username was Jane Doe.
 * Unknown date: Around 1,000–2,000 games are made on the site.

2006

 * June 21st: Telamon joins ROBLOX.
 * September 28th: Games go multiplayer, and friends and private messaging were added.
 * October 25th: Search features for Places, People, and Models are added.
 * November 6th: You can now choose if your place is "Friends Only" or "Public".

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: ROBLOX Badges first appear, this is not to be confused with "place badges".

Unknown date in 2006 or later

 * The testing of Tool meshes began.

January 2007

 * January 8th: 44 ROBLOXians have the Bloxxer Badge.Bloxxerbadge2007.jpg image from 2006–2014.]]
 * January 9th: On this day, many things are revealed. It includes the Administrator Badge, and Private Message 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 created.
 * January 26th: Teams are tested, but not released.
 * January 31st: The Report Abuse feature is added.
 * [Unknown date/month]: The slanted bold text is changed to Comic Sans.

February 2007

 * February 5th: The official ROBLOX Wiki is created.
 * February 16th: The Update Bomb happens. It released Tools and Teams, made the website faster, and fixed bugs.
 * February 17th: The Copylock feature is added.
 * February 24th: Fleskhjerta joins ROBLOX and later on, he becomes famous.

March 2007

 * March 8th: 7 ideas for customization were thought of: hair, body parts, hats and helmets, gestures, faces, shirts, and backpacks.
 * March 27th: More updates happen. Supersafe Chat, Image Mods, custom skyboxes, and a new profile page are released.

April 2007

 * April 1st: An April Fools joke happens, when 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: Spawns are added, bugs were fixed, a max Player cap was added to places, an early beta of servers was made, and places now have their own pages.
 * May 3rd: Hair is tested, but fails.
 * May 14th: ROBUX is added, 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 to 13th: The Domino Contest is held. The most famous winner of the contest was Fleskhjerta, by a YouTube video.
 * June 13th: The Domino Contests ends. Alsom wookong joins the ROBLOX team and 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 users.
 * 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. When it had 30,000,000 users, ROBLOXia would rank at 30, 35 or 25 out of 226. By now, ROBLOXia has 130,000,000 users, making it rank as the 10th most populous country, just surpassing Japan.

August 2007

 * August 2nd: Tickets are added.
 * August 16th: Builders Club is released for everyone.
 * August 20th: ROBLOX hits 50,000 members.

September 2007

 * 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 Wiki on wikia.com (the one you are reading a page on right now) was made.
 * November 13th: A cave caves in, and Wookong almost dies.
 * November 14th: HolyMac, Jacobxxduel, Rombom, Sirloin and Koopa join the ROBLOX team. Also, ROBLOX gets better graphics.
 * November 17th: ROBLOX T-shirts (and goodies) are for sale.
 * November 20th: ROBLOX hits 100,000 members.

December 2007

 * December 3rd: ROBLOX removes arm collision.
 * All of December: Several winter wonderland parades happen across this month.

Unknown date in 2007

 * Forcefields are 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 Builders Club.

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 massive update happens. The updates were:
 * 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
 * Less crashes


 * April 9th: The Spring Block Party happens.
 * 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.

August 2008

 * August 1st: The Olympics Contest begins.
 * August 30th: Place version history, Walkspeed, sparkle colors and team chat are added, but team chat did not work very well.

September 2008

 * September 5th: ROBLOX hits a million members.
 * 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 trading system and advertisements are added.

December 2008

 * December 18th: Heads were added.
 * December 22nd–29th: Miked's Ultimate Paintball gets 1,000,000 place visits, marking it the first place to reach one million place visits.

For history from 2009 to 2011 see History of ROBLOX/2009 to 2011.

For history from 2012 onwards see History of ROBLOX.