Timeline of OWOT

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.