Timeline of OWOT: Difference between revisions

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~~<nowiki><span style~~=~~"color: red~~;~~">Temporary notice: </span></nowiki> 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 ==

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

== 2015 ==

~~== 2010 ==~~

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

* ~~June 8 – [[Your World of Text]] launches~~ OWOT.

== 2017 ==

* October 8 – ~~A new version of~~ OWOT is launched and ~~the first WOTD was chosen~~.

* 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.

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== 2020 ==

* March-May: There was a high amount of image spam in ~~that~~ time period.

* March-May: There was a high amount of image spam in this time period.

* May 11 – Changelog 8 is released.

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== 2024 ==

~~[[File:Christa McAuliffe Spam 2024-02-19.png|300px|thumb|Yikes, that spammer!]]~~

* February 15 – [[FP]] announces the [[removal of chat]] on the front page, scheduled for March 10, 2024.

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* February 23 – [[Lemuria]] starts publishing [[Our World of News]], an OWOT newspaper and competitor to [[OWOT Today]].

* March 10 – Chat is [[~~Removal~~ of chat|~~removed~~]].

* March 10 – Chat is removed and the [[March removal of chat|week without chat]] begins.

* April 10 – Chat is ~~restored~~.

* March 17 – Chat returns.

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* April 29 – Chat is removed again as FP gives up on stopping spam attacks.

* May 15 – [[Yagton]] becomes an admin on the Discord server.

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