Timeline of OWOT
Temporary notice: 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
- 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.