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<span style="color: red;">Temporary notice: </span> Please refrain from including the joining of users, and please do not include the things trolls or spammers have done. We don't want to romanticize spamming.
== 2010 ==
== 2010 ==
* June 8 &ndash; [[Andrew Badr]] launches OWOT as an alternative to [[YWOT]] which permits unrestricted scripting.
* June 8 &ndash; [[Andrew Badr]] launches OWOT as an alternative to [[YWOT]] which permits unrestricted scripting.
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* February 23 &ndash; [[Lemuria]] starts publishing [[Our World of News]], an OWOT newspaper and competitor to [[OWOT Today]].
* February 23 &ndash; [[Lemuria]] starts publishing [[Our World of News]], an OWOT newspaper and competitor to [[OWOT Today]].
* March 10 &ndash; Chat is [[Removal of chat|removed]] and the [[Week Without Chat]] begins.
* March 10 &ndash; Chat is [[Removal of chat|removed]] and the [[Week Without Chat]] begins.
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* March 17 &ndash; Chat returns.
* March 17 &ndash; Chat returns.
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* April 29 &ndash; Chat is removed again as FP gives up on stopping spam attacks.
* May 15 &ndash; [[Yagton]] becomes an admin on the Discord server.

Revision as of 10:16, 15 May 2024

2010

  • June 8 – Andrew Badr launches OWOT as an alternative to YWOT which permits unrestricted scripting.

2015

  • August 20 - The original OWOT shuts down due to likely funding issues.

2017

  • October 8 – OWOT in its current form is launched by InfraRaven and FP.
  • October 28 – The first changelog is released.
  • October 30 – Changelog 2 is released.

2018

  • March 3 – Changelog 3 is released.
  • March 6 – Changelog 4 is created.
  • July 19 – Changelog 5 is released.
  • December 1 – Changelog 6 is released.

2019

  • September 2 – Changelog 7 is released.

2020

  • March-May: There was a high amount of image spam in this time period.
  • May 11 – Changelog 8 is released.

2021

  • July – Changelog 9 is released.

2022

  • May – Changelog 10 is released.

2023

  • February 25 – OWOT becomes open source.
  • March-May: The AntiSwear campaign was one of the major dramas. (?)
  • May 27 – Changelog 11 is released.

2024

  • February 15 – FP announces the removal of chat on the front page, scheduled for March 10, 2024.
  • February 23 – Lemuria starts publishing Our World of News, an OWOT newspaper and competitor to OWOT Today.
  • March 10 – Chat is removed and the Week Without Chat begins.
  • March 17 – Chat returns.
  • April 29 – Chat is removed again as FP gives up on stopping spam attacks.
  • May 15 – Yagton becomes an admin on the Discord server.