Timeline of Roblox history

Note: This is an archive for the history of Roblox for 2009-2011.

January 2009

 * January 13th: The I Love Roblox Contest begins. (Results)

February 2009

 * February 12th: Telamon teaches you about advertisements.
 * February 28th: The last heads are released.

March 2009

 * March 18th: Wood and the asset recommender are added.
 * March 31st: The Worlds of Wood contest happens.

April 2009

 * April 2nd: There are now 64 available colors.
 * April 22nd: The Ambassador Program, badge, and the 64 character colors are added.
 * April 24th: Trusses, Slate, and Universal connectors are added.

May 2009

 * May 5th: Vehicle Seats are added.


 * May 6th: Truss types and drag inserting are added.

June 2009

 * June 3rd: Gear Categories and Rental Gear are added.
 * June 18th: TBC was added.

July 2009

 * July 8th: BC Upgrades are added.
 * July 30th: Groups are added, as well as statuses, feed, and best friends.

August 2009

 * August 13th: Lots of updates happened:
 * 1) User-made badges
 * 2) More groups depending on the level of BC you have
 * 3) Group Search
 * 4) Owner transferring
 * 5) Status updates for groups

September 2009

 * September 1st: Off-Game Chatting was added.
 * September 2nd: Facebook Connect is tested.
 * September 6th: New materials are added (Concrete, Corroded Metal, Diamond Plate, Aluminum, Ice), and the sky is updated.
 * September 14th: Telamon is interviewed.
 * September 24th: GUIs are added.
 * September 28th: Building with Friends is added.

October 2009

 * October 5th: Limited and Unique items are added.
 * October 14th: Group Ranks are added, as well as referral codes.
 * October 28th: OBC is added.

November 2009

 * November 26th: Bubble Chat is added.

December 2009

 * December 17th: Smoke is added.

January 2010

 * January 24th: Sets are added

February 2010

 * February 9th: Contests are added.
 * February 28th: Contests are fixed.

March 2010

 * March 30th: Roblosam gets interviewed

April 2010

 * April 20th: ROBLOX is featured on Click
 * April 29th: Body Shapes (Packages) are tested.

May 2010

 * May 14th: Packages are added.

June 2010

 * June 8th: The Triple Hat Feature and the Join In-Game feature are added.
 * June 23rd: Fire is shown in a demo.

July 2010

 * July 23rd: Privacy features are added.

August 2010

 * August 2nd: Facebook Connect returns.
 * August 11th: A new theme is added to ROBLOX.

September 2010

 * September 14th: A new site skin is made for OBCers.
 * September 26th: ROBLOX Gift Cards are now at Toys R Us.

October 2010

 * October 1st: ROBLOX Gift Cards are now at 7-11
 * October 31st: ROBLOX Gift Cards are now at Best Buy and Gamestop.

November 2010

 * November 15th: Dialog is shown in a sneak peek.
 * November 24th: ROBLOX adds a Captcha

December 2010

 * December 2nd: Blazing Man and Dialog are added.
 * Sometime before Christmas: In-game recording is added for XP only.
 * December 30th: ROBLOX adds BC-Only Places, which angers BC-ers and non-BCers alike.

January 2011

 * January 6th: Exploits were fixed, ROBLOX ran faster on old graphics cards, and Groups could now allow everyone (including NBCers) into their group places.
 * January 12th: Physics-based collision sounds are added.
 * January 28th: Ambient occlusion is released.

February 2011

 * February 3rd: Groups could now advertise themselves.
 * February 28th: The in-game screen recorder is released for all platforms.

March 2011

 * March 9th: The BC Loyalty program is released.
 * March 17th: Seth Deesub gets a million Robux by Make a Wish Foundation.
 * March 23rd: New users can sign up with a gender(Male or Female).

April 2011

 * April 5th: Facebook Connect is re-added.
 * April 8th: Group owners can become "allies" and "enemies" with other groups.
 * April 14th: Basic data-persistence is added.
 * April 28th: Users can declare a primary group.

May 2011

 * May 5th: You could now see your favorite places on the Games page.
 * May 21st (?): A new game GUI is released, with a new player list. You can take pictures and videos.
 * May 26th: A basic iPod/iPhone app for Roblox is released. User can't play yet- only check messages and the like.

June 2011

 * June 16th: The ROBLOX Rally is announced.
 * June 22nd: You could now play with friends.

July 2011

 * July 18th: Roblox's first television commercial is made and launched.
 * July 22nd: Teleportation between places (TeleportService) is added, which Telamon has been trying to do for a number of years.

August 2011

 * August 1st: The Roblox Rally happens in San Francisco.
 * August 9th: The wealthiest Robloxian (Timezy) joins ROBLOX at about 6000 ROBUX.
 * August 11th: Mega Places are added. Also, a time of day slider was added, as well as Plugins.

September 2011

 * Early September: Chrome users can directly launch Roblox in Browser.
 * September 9th: ROBLOX cards are now in Canada.
 * September 18th: The ROBLOX iPhone app can now allow the user buy various kinds of Builder's Club at various durations using iTunes money.
 * September 22nd: ROBLOX has their first Rich Tester Day, where a tester on the ROBLOX Test Server could win 10,000 ROBUX.
 * September 26th: ROBLOX releases their first toy, which are some building blocks that spell 'ROBLOX'.

October 2011

 * October 7th: Terrain Generation is finally released.
 * October 24th: ROBLOX game cards are now in Target and CVS.
 * October 27th: The Meet an Interesting ROBLOXian series starts.

November 2011

 * November 2nd: Personal Servers are finally added.
 * Mid-November: ROBLOX finally brings gift cards to the UK.

December 2011

 * December 8, 2011- The fog feature is added.
 * December 23, 2011-The Developer's Blog is renamed and updated, now exists as the "Community Blog".

Unknown Date in 2011 or later

 * A futuristic respawn animation is updated, presumably by Telamon