Timeline of Roblox history/2004-2006

2004

• January 30 – The Roblox domain is purchased.
• March 23 - Roblox Corporation is founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel; David becomes one of the board of directors.
• March 29 – "ROBLOX" is trademarked.
• April 9 – Roblox as a business is incorporated.
• June 30 – Roblox's "first" registered user named Admin joins Roblox. It was likely that the account was created the same day that account creation was introduced, in order to test account creation. It was later banned and moved to ID 18, most likely to test moderation.
• June 30 – The qa account is created.
• July 1 – David Baszucki created the David.Baszucki account.
• July 2 – Erik Cassel created the erik.cassel account.
• July 7 - Toolbox's account is created, used to test the Toolbox models.
• Before July 12 - The forums are created.
• July 12 - The oldest known thread is made on the forums.
• July 13 - The first non-admin user named "Todd" is created. This person designed a logo that was unused for Roblox.
• July 23 - The first user under the age of 13, Matt, joins Roblox.
• July 30 - The Roblox website opens to the public for the first time.
• July 31 – David.Baszucki creates the oldest known game, "Spasmotron2 vs. Wimpotron2".
  • Games at the time were designed directly on the browser, not on your computer.
• August 9 – David.Baszucki creates a game called "Do not disturb the dynamite".
• August 17 or 18 – Sign-up was closed.
• Summer 2004 – Controllers are added, which were important features used for minigames before removal in May 2009.
• October 26 – Characters are now controllable and posable though with limited movement.
• November 5 – David.Baszucki makes the "child on skateboard" model.

The earliest login/website screen supplied by an archive page. Image was taken 8/15/2004.

Early home page dated 10/22/2004. (The image came from an archive page).

January 2004 DynaBlocks Mockup

Without watermark

The January 2004 DynaBlocks logo

The very first Roblox logo (c. Spring 2004)

Recreation of the Summer 2004 - Spring 2005 logo

The child on skateboard model made on November 5, 2004

Login screen with sidebar

2005

• January 7 – Roblox is first funded.
• January 24 – Roblox raises $560,000.
• February 1 – Roblox's word mark is published for opposition.
• February 3 – CameraMenu is added.
• February 11 – Roblox's alpha testing ends, and beta testing begins.^{⁠[citation needed]}.
• February 18 – Signup reopens as students from the Nueva school test the game.
• March 5 - Roblox begins to completely redesign their site, and Roblox deprecates all "/Portal/" URLs.
• March 18 - The first screenshots of roblox in 2005 are made.
• March 24 – The first Roblox patent claim is filed. The chase and flee controller type are added.
• Late April - Bevels are added. The date can be inferred from the lack of bevels in the patent screenshots (taken March 18th-March 24th) and the bevels on the hinge icon which was created in April.
• May 10 – The site completes its first major overhaul, and all non-admin created assets/games and models made before May 10, 2005, get deleted in a database wipe.
• May 11 – The first Roblox patent is published.
• May 22 – The user "ROBLOX" joins, their ID is soon changed to 1, which is the same as Admin's former ID.
• May 23 – A new logo is drawn by David Baszucki's Father-in-Law.
• June -
  • A SurfaceType named "Spawn" is added, which was used for minigames like Fend off the bots.
  • June 6 – The "Steer the Spheres" contest begins.
  • June 25 – Roblox's first official accounts, John Doe and Jane Doe, are created.
• July -
  • July 14 - Sign-up is closed again as Roblox undergoes a complete overhaul based on early user feedback.
  • King Arthurs Castle is created, which some elements of are seen in early versions of Crossroads.
  • July 28 – VelocityTool is added.
• September 22 – The "Arrow" cursor is added, which was used until 2013.
• October -
  • The Run menu was removed.
  • Morgan McGuire took screenshots of an early ROBLOX build.
  • Humanoids were added, replacing PhysicalCharacter.
  • October 4 – The default face, drawn by David Baszucki, was created.
• December 10 – The "Laser" HopperBin is added.
• December 15 - The decal for the Brickyard sign is created
• December 21 – Concept art for possible avatar designs is created by Mike Rayhawk (known on the platform as brickmason), an illustrator for various LEGO games.

The thumbnail of a scooter model, as seen in the 2005 patent and the 2007 installer. (c. July 2005)

The thumbnail of a hinged block, as seen on the old hinge tool. (c. April 2005)

The "Arrow Keys" controller (c. 2005)

The "WASD" controller (c. 2005)

Spasmotron2 vs Wimpotron2 in the levels tab.

Early Roblox Patent from February or March 2005. You can also see the early properties tab.

The ROBLOX logo from mid 2005 - early 2006

Without the Beta late 2005 to November 2006

ROBLOX U.S. Model/website Patent (c. March 18, 2005)

ROBLOX's homepage used from July 2005 to April 2006.

A screenshot of "King Arthur's Castle".

A screenshot of "Parrot Cay".

A contest map called "Steer the Spheres".

2 "Bridge it!" Games put in order that have the early Chassis/Player model (c. 2005)

ROBLOX's homepage before July 2005.

Early ROBLOX studio screenshot (c. 2005)

ROBLOX U.S. Game/website Patent (c. March 18, 2005)

Early placeholder when an image couldn't be displayed (2005)

The 2005 - 2007 ROBLOX InstallShield Wizard.

March 2005 chassis photo, colorized

An icon used for the Player controller

The signing in page. (c. June 2005)

December 2005 image of an early humanoid model

December 2005 image of an early version of the Brickyard that would be seen in the early 2006 starter place.

Early concept art for character heads, from December 21, 2005.

Illustration of the "bumps" SurfaceType on a blue brick

"Spawn" cursor from 2005. (c. June 2005)

2006

January-June

• Early 2006 - A SurfaceType named "Spawn" was removed, which was added in June 2005. It was used in the now deleted models on Roblox.
• Somewhere between January 1 and January 10 - The 2005 Color3 values are replaced with BrickColor. One of the last places to use Color3 values is "Empty Platform" by Erik Cassel.
• January 11 – The oldest known humanoid model is made.
• January 13 – Mike Rayhawk creates more concept art for avatars.
• January 20 – Mike Rayhawk creates concept art for character arms.
• January 30 – Surface textures are added.
• February 20 – Roblox opens the site to certain users to help test new features.
• February 27 – All currently registered users' join dates are changed to this day due to database changes. Minigames were removed.
• March 7 –
  • Registration re-opens, and the first account to be created is named "testuser".
  • The starter place "Community Building Site" is replaced with "Brickyard". The first user to receive this new place is David.Baszucki.
• March 8 - David Baszucki creates the Builderman account. The Builderman account was used to message every new player that joins Roblox, and it also served as David's main account for a while.
• March 10 – The "Slingshot" HopperBin is added.
• March 23 –
  • Roblox is finished with beta testing, and the website is now available to everyone. It does not officially release until September 1, 2006.
  • Places and descriptions can now be renamed.
• March 29 – The starter place, which was formerly named "room_environment_blue", is renamed to "(Player Name)'s Place". The user "disenman" is the first player to receive this change.
• June –
  • A game that will eventually be named Crossroads is created.
  • The "Rocket Launcher" HopperBin is added.
  • June 5 – Multiplayer is released in an early state, but is restricted to official games by ROBLOX, which includes jk323's Place and possibly a prototype Crossroads.
  • June 10 - Instead of falling forever, you will die if you fall past the FallenPartsDestroyHeight.
  • Before June 20 - IDs are shuffled. David Baszucki's ID is now 1.
  • June 21 – Shedletsky (formerly known as Telamon) joins Roblox.
  • Late June - Humanoid health is implemented and an early health system is introduced, however this is only in private development builds.

July-December

• Sometime in July – The feature Jumping is added.
• Sometime in November - The StarterPack service is added.
• July 14 - Crossroads, the first official Roblox multiplayer game is released as "Brick Battle", with updates passing every few weeks, adding new weapons such as the Trowel and Superball, and areas such as the Brickyard and Thieve's Den until when Crossroads was finalized in September. Crossroads ends up becoming the most popular Roblox experience of 2006.
  • Sounds and chatting are added to avatars in Multiplayer experiences.
• July 16-22 - The Camera is offset to inside of the avatar's head instead of on top it. Previously the camera would offset higher when you scroll out. The camera linear interpolation is set to default at ~0.9.
• July 18 – Shedletsky (formerly known as Telamon) is now hired full time as Roblox's Creative Director.
• July 22 – John Shedletsky makes the very first documented Roblox video, titled "Time Bomb: A Short Story", demonstrating the bomb item. Timebomb and the Trowel are also added in this timeframe.
• August 3 - When playing a game, you are now able to see who is playing in the same server through the Player List.
• August 8 – Roblox begins to use hosted servers. User created games begin to be able to be played in multiplayer.
• August 16 - The game Community Construction is released as the second Multiplayer experience. The Superball tool is added.
• Late August - The website's font is changed to Comic Sans. The game Chaos Canyon is released as the third Multiplayer experience.
• September 1 – The platform is considered to be officially released. Roblox intentionally releases with no player animations, as a way of preparing for user feedback when animations are implemented.
• September 27 – Mike Rayhawk creates a rough sketch of a potential Roblox website design showing an early ratings system.
• September 28 – Friends and private messaging are added. User multiplayer is finalized and is fully released to users. The GameTool icon changes.
• October 17 – The first moderation action is taken on an unknown user.
• October 25 – A more refined version of the Browse section of the website is released, which adds search functionality.
• October 27 – The first public official Roblox video on YouTube is uploaded, the video is called Chaos Canyon Firefight and was uploaded by Shedletsky.
• November 1-9 - Items now have a green highlight when you select them.
• November 6 – Places can now be set as "Friends Only" or "Public".
• November 9 - The site banner image is changed along with the release of the first Roblox trailer.
• November 14 – The first Roblox test site domain was registered.
• December 6 – The Roblox Blog is created, as a permanent home from the former forum posts in the Release Notes sub-forum. The first post starts with a line from the Chronicles of ROBLOX.
• December 11 – Roblox reaches 10,000 registered users.
• December 21 – Santa's Winter Stronghold is revealed.
• December 22 – Roblox Badges (not to be mistaken with user badges) are added to the website.

Screenshot of the 2006 ROBLOX client

Early homepage dated May 19, 2006. Homepage image supplied by an archive site.

The "UHJK" ControllerType, it was added for other movement keybinds than "WASD". (c. March 2006)

Alpha test site of ROBLOX (c. July 2006)

ROBLOX's homepage in 2006.

An multiplayer server of Crossroads from November 2006

The Roblox Logo from November 2006 - Early 2009. Contrary to popular belief, this was not the logo at release.

A 2006 place with a saved bomb in a 2007 version of Roblox

Roblox gameplay in July 2006.

Concept art for the Roblox website by Mike Rayhawk (September 2006)

First website mockup made by Mike Rayhawk (October 2006)

Second website mockup made by Mike Rayhawk (December 2006)