Timeline of LiveJournal
This is a timeline of events in the history of the virtual community LiveJournal. == 1999 == March 18, 1999 — LiveJournal starts (first entry ever: [1], however the earliest dated entry is from November 1997 [2], possibly copied from the founder's personal website; first version of the server code: [3]) April 14, 1999 — LiveJournal domain officially registered November 17, 1999 — Creation of the news journal [4] == 2000 == February 14, 2000 — The first Macintosh Client is released by Aaron Eiche [5] April 1, 2000 — Message boards (comments on entries)[6] May 21, 2000 — Subject lines for entries August 2, 2000 — Interests [7] August 3, 2000 — First version of the Directory Search in beta test [8] August 15, 2000 — First version of the support board (earliest surviving support request: [9]) August 22, 2000 — Topic directory [10] (now defunct) August 25, 2000 — Text messaging [11] September 13, 2000 — First paid-account benefits [12] November 14, 2000 — LJ user visions releases the first version of his Windows client [13] December 1, 2000 — Creation of the changelog journal [14] December 16, 2000 — Communities [15] == 2001 == January 12, 2001 — Introduction of the Dystopia site scheme [16] March 16, 2001 — First Permanent Account Sale "100 people, 100 bucks" to Raise Funds for new Alpha Database Server [17] March 18, 2001 — User polls [18] March 24, 2001 — LiveJournal server code goes open-source [19] May 16, 2001 — First support privilege: supporthelp [20] September 2, 2001 — Invite codes are introduced [21] November 4, 2001 — avva becomes first full-time employee [22] == 2002 == January 1, 2002 — bradfitz posts about Mirrors On Shoes' LiveJournal Song [23] January 5, 2002 — First purging run (freeing deleted usernames) [24] February 2, 2002 — Database clustering [25] April 1, 2002 — New support category: Communities [26] April 14, 2002 — Switch to UTF-8 [27] May 3, 2002 — Web interface starts getting translated into other languages [28] July 3, 2002 — Zilla (bug and project tracking database) created (first entry: [29]) July 8, 2002 — RSS syndication [30] August 22, 2002 — Support introduces interim privileges [31] November 26, 2002 — Support category Customization closed [32] December 29, 2002 — New support category: Syndication [33] == 2003 == January 16, 2003 — Style System 2 (S2) enters beta-test [34] March 18, 2003 — Introduction of the XColibur site scheme [35] April 11, 2003 — One million accounts reached [36] [37] October 24, 2003 — Post by e-mail [38] October 29, 2003 — New support category: Style Systems [39] November 12, 2003 — Post by phone [40] December 12, 2003 — Invite codes are removed [41] December 12, 2003 — LiveJournal begins airing commercials in movie theatres in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Denver.