Roblox Wiki
Advertisement
Roblox Wiki

2004[]

  • January 30 – The Roblox domain is purchased.[1]
  • March 23 - Roblox Corporation is founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel; David becomes one of the board of directors.[2][3]
  • March 29 – "ROBLOX" is trademarked.[4]
  • April 9 – Roblox as a business is incorporated.[5]
  • June 30 – Roblox's "first" registered user named Admin joins Roblox. It was likely that the account was created the same day that account creation was introduced, in order to test account creation. It was later banned and moved to ID 18, most likely to test moderation.
  • June 30 – The qa account is created.
  • July 1 – David Baszucki created the David.Baszucki account.
  • July 2 – Erik Cassel created the erik.cassel account.
  • July 7 - Toolbox's account is created, used to test the Toolbox models.
  • Before July 12 - The forums are created.
  • July 12 - The oldest known thread is made on the forums.[6]
  • July 13 - The first non-admin user named "Todd" is created. This person designed a logo that was unused for Roblox.
  • July 23 - The first user under the age of 13, Matt, joins Roblox.
  • July 30 - The Roblox website opens to the public for the first time.
  • July 31 – David.Baszucki creates the oldest known game, "Spasmotron2 vs. Wimpotron2".
  • August 9 – David.Baszucki creates a game called "Do not disturb the dynamite".[7]
  • Summer 2004 – Controllers are added, which were important features used for minigames before removal in May 2009.
  • November 5 – David.Baszucki makes the "child on skateboard" model.

2005[]

  • January 7 – Roblox is first funded.[8]
  • January 24 – Roblox raises $560,000.[8]
  • January 28 - The earliest known 2005 model, bulldozer, is created.
  • February 1 – Roblox's word mark is published for opposition.[4]
  • February 2 - The icon for controller flags are created.
  • February 3 – CameraMenu is added.
  • February 17 – Roblox creates the Nueva accounts for The Nueva School to test the game. The earliest known 2005 game, Dangerous Driver v9, is created.[9]
  • March 5 - Roblox begins to completely redesign their site, and Roblox deprecates all "/Portal/" URLs.
  • March 24 – The first Roblox patent claim is filed.[10] The chase and flee controller type are added.
  • Late April - Bevels are added. The date can be inferred from the lack of bevels in the patent screenshots (taken March 18th-March 24th) and the bevels on the hinge icon which was created in April.
  • May 10 – The site completes its first major overhaul, and all non-admin created assets/games and models made before May 10, 2005, get deleted in a database wipe. Some admin-made levels such as Level #3 - Block It! remain.[11]
  • May 11 – The first Roblox patent is published.[10]
  • May 22 – The user "ROBLOX" joins, their ID is soon changed to 1, which is the same as Admin's former ID.
  • May 23 – A new logo is drawn by David Baszucki's Father-in-Law.[12]
  • Early June - A SurfaceType named "Spawn" is added, which was used for minigames like Fend off the bots.
  • June 17 - Roblox holds their first ever focus group to process user feedback.
  • June 25 – Roblox's first official accounts, John Doe and Jane Doe, are created.
  • July -
    • July 9 – The "Steer the Spheres" contest begins. The contest is made easier 3 days later.
    • King Arthur's Castle is created, which some elements of are seen in early versions of Crossroads.
    • July 28 – VelocityTool is added.
    • Morgan McGuire takes screenshots of Parrot Cay, King Arthur's Castle, and Steer the Spheres #2, which were added to his website in October.
  • Sometime between July 14 - November - Roblox enters stealth mode and undergoes a complete overhaul based on user feedback.[13][14]
  • September 22 – The "Arrow" cursor is created, and was used up until 2013.
  • October -
    • The Run menu was removed.
    • October 4 – The default face, drawn by David Baszucki,[15] was created.
  • December 10 – The "Laser" HopperBin is added.
  • December 15 - The decal for the Brickyard sign is created
  • December 21 – Concept art for possible avatar designs is created by Mike Rayhawk (known on the platform as brickmason), an illustrator for various LEGO games.[16]

2006[]

  • Early 2006 - A SurfaceType named "Spawn" was removed, which was added in June 2005. It was used in the now deleted models on Roblox.[17]
  • Somewhere between January 1 and January 10 - The 2005 Color3 values are replaced with BrickColor. One of the last places to use Color3 values is "Empty Platform" by Erik Cassel.[18]
  • January 11 – The oldest known humanoid model is made.[19]
  • January 12 - Erik gets his humanoid and his starter place that is now "Experimental jet pack" "Experimental jet pack" is the oldest game still on the Platform.
  • January 13 – Mike Rayhawk creates more concept art for avatars.[16]
  • January 20 – Mike Rayhawk creates concept art for character arms.[16]
  • January 30 – Surface textures are added.
  • February 20 – Roblox opens the site to certain users to help test new features.
  • February 27 – All currently registered users' join dates are changed to this day due to database changes. Minigames were removed.
  • March 7 –
    • Registration re-opens, and the first account to be created is named "testuser". Their place (now known as "GEAR-WARS The Fight Of The Golden Star Dragon")
    • The starter place "Community Building Site" is replaced with "Brickyard". The first user to receive this new place is David.Baszucki.[20]
  • March 8 - David Baszucki creates the Builderman account. The Builderman account was used to message every new player that joins Roblox, and it also served as David's main account for a while.
  • March 10 – The "Slingshot" HopperBin is added.
  • March 23 –
    • Roblox is finished with beta testing, and the website is now available to everyone. It does not officially release until September 1, 2006.
    • Places and descriptions can now be renamed.[21]
  • March 29 – The starter place, which was formerly named "room_environment_blue", is renamed to "(Player Name)'s Place". The user "disenman" is the first player to receive this change.
  • June –
    • A game that will eventually be named Crossroads is created.
    • The "Rocket Launcher" HopperBin is added.
    • June 5 – Multiplayer is released in an early state, but is restricted to official games by ROBLOX, which includes jk323's Place and possibly a prototype Crossroads.[22]
    • June 10 - Instead of falling forever, you will die if you fall past the FallenPartsDestroyHeight.[23]
    • Before June 20 - IDs are shuffled. David Baszucki's ID is now 1.
    • June 21 – Shedletsky (formerly known as Telamon) joins Roblox.
    • Late June - Humanoid health is implemented and an early health system is introduced, however this is only in private development builds. July-December
  • Sometime in July – The feature Jumping is added.[24]
  • Sometime in November - The StarterPack service is added.
  • July 14 - Crossroads, the first official Roblox multiplayer game is released as "Brick Battle", with updates passing every few weeks, adding new weapons such as the Trowel and Superball, and areas such as the Brickyard and Thieve's Den until when Crossroads was finalized in September. Crossroads ends up becoming the most popular Roblox experience of 2006.
    • Sounds and chatting are added to avatars in Multiplayer experiences.[25]
  • July 16-22 - The Camera is offset to inside of the avatar's head instead of on top it. Previously the camera would offset higher when you scroll out. The camera linear interpolation is set to default at ~0.9.
  • July 18 – Shedletsky (formerly known as Telamon) is now hired full time as Roblox's Creative Director.
  • July 22 – John Shedletsky makes the very first documented Roblox video, titled "Time Bomb: A Short Story", demonstrating the bomb item. Timebomb and the Trowel are also added in this timeframe.[26][24]
  • August 3 - When playing a game, you are now able to see who is playing in the same server through the Player List.
  • August 8 – Roblox begins to use hosted servers. User created games begin to be able to be played in multiplayer.[27]
  • August 16 - The game Community Construction is released as the second Multiplayer experience. The Superball tool is added.
  • Late August - The website's font is changed to Comic Sans. The game Chaos Canyon is released as the third Multiplayer experience.
  • September 1 – The platform is considered to be officially released.[28] Roblox intentionally releases with no player animations, as a way of preparing for user feedback when animations are implemented.[29]
  • September 27 – Mike Rayhawk creates a rough sketch of a potential Roblox website design showing an early ratings system.[30]
  • September 28 – Friends and private messaging are added. User multiplayer is finalized and is fully released to users. The GameTool icon changes.[31]
  • October 17 – The first moderation action is taken on an unknown user.
  • October 25 – A more refined version of the Browse section of the website is released, which adds search functionality.
  • October 27 – The first public official Roblox video on YouTube is uploaded, the video is called Chaos Canyon Firefight and was uploaded by Shedletsky.[32]
  • November 1-9 - Items now have a green highlight when you select them.
  • November 6 – Places can now be set as "Friends Only" or "Public".
  • November 9 - The site banner image is changed along with the release of the first Roblox trailer.
  • November 14 – The first Roblox test site domain was registered.
  • December 6 – The Roblox Blog is created, as a permanent home from the former forum posts in the Release Notes sub-forum.[33] The first post starts with a line from the Chronicles of ROBLOX.[34]
  • December 11 – Roblox reaches 10,000 registered users.[35]
  • December 21 – Santa's Winter Stronghold is revealed.[36]
  • December 22 – Roblox Badges (not to be mistaken with user badges) are added to the website.[37]

References[]

  1. Who.is. ROBLOX domain history. Retrieved from https://who.is/whois/roblox.com
  2. https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-mateo/profile/online-gaming/roblox-corporation-1116-316031/details
  3. https://corp.roblox.com/people/
  4. 4.0 4.1 https://trademark.trademarkia.com/roblox-78392717.html
  5. https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-mateo/profile/online-gaming/roblox-corporation-1116-316031/details
  6. David.Baszucki (2004, July 12). "Couldn't install on laptop from home". From ROBLOX Forum. Accessed October 12, 2023. Archived from the original on June 22, 2006.
  7. (n.d.) . ROBLOX Forum. Accessed October 12, 2023. Archived from the original on June 24, 2005.
  8. 8.0 8.1 (n.d.) . "Series A - Roblox". From Crunchbase. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023.
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20060620031333/http://roblox.com/Forum/User/ShowAllUsers.aspx
  10. 10.0 10.1 "Online building toy".
  11. https://www.roblox.com/library/770/Ball-4x4x4
  12. https://blog.roblox.com/2017/01/introducing-our-next-generation-logo/
  13. [1]
  14. http://web.archive.org/web/20060622105100/http://roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=143
  15. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/in-response-to-the-oof-sound-discussion/430686
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 http://mikerayhawk.com/roblox/phase2.htm
  17. DirtPiper (2018, October 21). "History of Roblox, 2003-2006". From Old ROBLOX Client Search. Accessed October 12, 2023. Archived from the original on July 10, 2023.
  18. https://web.archive.org/web/20070527222812/http://www.roblox.com/Place.aspx?ID=1451
  19. https://www.roblox.com/library/1435/Figure5
  20. https://www.roblox.com/library/1496/brickyard-v2
  21. https://web.archive.org/web/20060622105129/http://roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=150
  22. https://archive.froast.io/forum/161
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20060622105218/http://roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=162
  24. 24.0 24.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20160423172848/http://shedletsky.com/blog/living-the-dream
  25. (2006, July 14). Roblox Forum Archive. Archived from the original on April 5, 2023.
  26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSwA0oz2NY
  27. https://archive.froast.io/forum/278
  28. http://web.archive.org/web/20190620124508/https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/203313370-Roblox-Company-Information
  29. When the Platform is Your Product, timestamp - 39:22-40:55. Talk given by David Baszucki on April 16, 2018, at eCorner, Stanford University. Season 13, Episode 17 of Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders.
  30. http://mikerayhawk.com/roblox/website.htm
  31. https://archive.froast.io/forum/3402
  32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKtILIu6ak
  33. https://archive.froast.io/forum/10810
  34. https://blog.roblox.com/2006/12/welcome/
  35. https://blog.roblox.com/2006/12/now-we-are-10000/
  36. https://blog.roblox.com/2006/12/santas-winter-stronghold-revealed/
  37. https://blog.roblox.com/2006/12/roblox-badges
Advertisement