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

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

January 2009
January 13th: The I Love Roblox Contest begins.

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 Progam, badge, and the 64 character colors are added.

April 24th: Trusses, Slate, and Universal connectors are added.

May 2009
May 5th: Chassis 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:
 * User-made badges
 * More groups depending on the level of BC you have
 * Group Search
 * Owner transferring
 * 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 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 is 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 is added.

Sometime before Chrizzmax: Ingame 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.

Febraury 2011
February 3rd: Groups could now advertise themselves.

February 28th: The ingame 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.

April 2011
April 5th: Facebook Connect is readded.

April 8th: Group owners can "ally" and "enemy" other groups.

April 14th: Basic data-persistance 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 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 let you buy Builder's Club.

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; 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 22, 2011- jaredvaldez4 becomes the first user to have four games on the front page at the same time.

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

January 2012

 * January 6th: ROBLOX Studio for the Mac reaches beta stages.
 * January 13th: Hack Week begins, and Universes are shown and tested.
 * January 18th: Water, buoyancy, and ropes are shown.
 * January 20th: New dynamic lightning is shown.
 * January 21st: ROBLOX games can now be played on more internet browsers.
 * January 26th: Video thumbnails are shown.

February 2012

 * February 8th: ROBLOX users can now buy ROBLOX cards at F.Y.E. and EB Games.

March 2012

 * March 6th: ROBLOX takes down the Ambassador Program which was started in 2010.
 * March 19th: ROBLOX improves their Network Physics
 * March 20th: ROBLOX gets first job at Game Developer Conference.
 * March 29th: ROBLOX introduces video/image portraits for places.

April 2012

 * April 1st; ROBLOX gets hacked and temporarily shuts down, possibly for an April Fools joke. The trade currency feature and purchases for the catalog is also temporarily unusable.
 * April 6th: ROBLOX's Interpolation Code is improved, resulting in smooth motion of objects.

May 2012

 * Around May 4th; ROBLOX shuts down many places in order to use an exploit-prevention plugin. When the plugin was finished, however, it caused raycast and debri functions to not function properly.
 * Around May, ROBLOX updates the selection after purchase log.
 * May 15th: The demo of the new V2 and V3 bodies was shown, resulting in dislike among some users regarding the bodies.
 * May 18th: Trading System is nearly close towards completion.