timeline

The timeline briefly documents key IndieWeb (and influencing thereof) terms/ideas/concepts, implementations, specifications, events, and other achievements; people involved, and dates/URLs for each.

For the social media timeline features, see:
- chronological feed - what social media timelines originally were
- algorithmic feed - what social media has done to them
- wall - what Facebook originally called their timeline
- public timeline - what Twitter launched with, stream of all public tweets
- homepage - more commonly used in the indieweb community

In every case, a source pointing to an exact date or community verification should be used.

Key (in rough order of how ideas develop, succeed)

(C) - Conceived. Concept/idea presented, published, discussed.
(T) - Terminology proposed/defined. Naming things helps talk about them (so says @timoreilly, Brooklyn Beta, 2013[1])
(E) - Event. A notable meeting or event that furthered the IndieWeb.
(I) - Implemented. Implementation shipped and deployed live and working on a personal indie web site.
(L) - Launched. Site, service, software, channel, or group launched.
(D) - Discontinued. Site, service, software, channel, or group discontinued, closed, shutdown.
(S) - Specified. Specification written down and publicly published on the web.

For significant IndieWeb / silo / social media / federated / decentralized web companies, products, and services, see and add to:

history

1992

1992 (C): plurality concept — … the Web is the SUPERSET of the FTP, WAIS, Gopher and HTTP spaces.
- via https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1992-web-vs-gopher/

1997

1997-02-01 (T): indie web term & basic concept published as English translation of a French “Manifeste du Web indépendant”, expressing the linking peer-to-peer & collaboration aspects beyond just independent publishing:
indie web is a new type of link between people, it's a free and open space of shared knowledge
Note: This manifesto was discovered by the IndieWeb community years after.
1997-03-09 (T)(S): Channel Definition Format (CDF) defined & specified in Microsoft submission to W3C by Thomas Reardon
1997-03-09 (C): RSS concepts nearly all defined in CDF spec
1997-12-17 (T): weblog term coined by Jorn Barger

1998

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1999

1999-03 (T)(S): RDF Site Summary (RSS) named in RSS 0.9 specification by Netscape
1999-05 (T): blog term coined by Peter Merholz

2000

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2001

2001-05-17 (L) Independents Day manifesto launched, conceptual predecessor to the IndieWeb movement
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2002

2002-05-08 (T): indie web phrase mentioned publicly as an adjective in phrase indie web publisher by Jeffrey Zeldman. See also #1997 use of phrase.
2002-06-26 (T)(I): Trackback first implemented in Movable Type v2.2 [2] [3]
2002-07-07 (C): Pingback concept described as "automatic trackback" by Stuart Langridge[4]
- first automatic way to let someone know that you linked to their site.
2002-08 (S): Trackback specification released by Six Apart [5]
2002-09-02 (T): Pingback term introduced by Stuart Langridge[6]
2002-09-02 (I): Pingback first implemented by Simon Willison ([7] (UK timestamp?)
- Additional source: Tantek conversation with Simon in Brighton, UK 2013-09-07
2002-09-02 (I): Pingback second implementation by Stuart Langridge[8] (US/CA timestamp?)
2002-09-04 (S): Pingback first specified by Stuart Langridge[9]
2002-09-06 (S): RSS 3.0 spec published by Aaron Swartz [10]
2002-09-23 (S): Pingback 1.0 spec published by Ian Hickson[11][12][13]

2003

2003-03-11 (C): XFN conceived by Tantek Çelik at SXSW with proposal of rel=friend
2003-03 (E): SXSW Interactive: Tantek Çelik & Matthew Mullenweg meet, work on XFN
2003-05-27 (L): WordPress open source project launched[14]
2003-06-29 (C): Atom - concepts described for why Atom (then working name "Echo") was needed and shortly thereafter RSS Atom Wars began
2003-12-15 (S): XFN 1.0 specified by Tantek Çelik[15], Eric Meyer[16], and Matt Mullenweg[17]

2004

2004-02-11 (T): microformats term introduced by Tantek Çelik & Kevin Marks, San Diego, CA
2004-08-16 (S): XFN 1.1 specified by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg[18], notably:
- (S): rel=me specified as part of XFN 1.1.
2004-09-09…11 (E): FOO Camp 2004 at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA. photos.
2004-09-10 (C): hCard concept as vCard in (X)HTML by Tantek Çelik
2004-09-11 (C): hCalendar concept as HTML class names for iCalendar properties by Tantek Çelik
2004-09-30 (T): hCard term blogged publicly by Tantek Çelik (privately introduced 2004-09-10)
2004-09-30 (T): hCalendar term blogged publicly by Tantek Çelik (privately introduced 2004-09-11)

2005

2005-06-20 (L): microformats.org launched
2005-08-19 (E): First BarCamp held in Palo Alto, CA. http://barcamp.org/BarCamp, creating the template for IndieWebCamp and many others.
2005-09-24…25 (E): Webzine 2005 conference held in San Francisco, CA. http://webzine2005.com/ (see also Flickr tags #webzine05, #webzine2005, and album). A few BarCamp Founders including Tantek Çelik participated in helping with the long planning/organizing for this conference, and the logistics discussed there contributed to inspiring them to believe they could create something similar, simpler, which became the first BarCamp, ironically held before Webzine.

2006

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2007

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2008

2008-02-01…03 (E): Social Graph FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA[19][20].photos.
2008-06-17 (E): Open Flow 2008/Supernova at Wharton West, San Francisco, CA[21][22]photos.
- Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks, Jeremy Keith, Joe Smarr, Dave Morin, David Recordon, Chris Messina, Leah Culver
2008-10-03 (C): rel=in-reply-to use in HTML as a rel microformat (re-use from RFC4685) proposed by Sarven Capadisli to 'indicate that the current hEntry is a reply to another hEntry and has a reference point @href' [23]

2009

2009-01-08 (E): First Activity Streams Meetup[24]
2009-01-14 (I): First implementation to publish rel=in-reply-to in StatusNet[25]
2009-04-17…19 (E): Social Web FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA(archive)[26][27]

2010

2010-02-01 (C): RelMeAuth concept described by Tantek[28]
2010-02-01 (T): RelMeAuth term proposed by Jeff Lindsay moments later[29]
2010-02-01 (C): RelMeAuth user flow, fallback algorithms by Tantek[30]
2010-02-03 (C): backfeed concept as "reverse syndication" by Tantek[31]
2010-04-30…05-02 (E): FOO East at Microsoft N.E.R.D., Cambridge, Massachussetts
2010-05-02 (C): microformats 2.0 proposed by Tantek at FOO East[32]
2010-05-03 (T): indie web as a noun published publicly as contrast to an (implied) silo example by Tantek[33]. See also #1997 and #2002 uses of phrase.
2010-05-26 (C): POSSE concept described by Tantek[34]
2010-06-06 (T): indie web term & concept as distinct from large companies used in private email interview response by Tantek to journalist Craig Grannell of .net magazine (Practical Web Design in the US), later published in said magazine (when? citation?)
2010-07-18 (E): Federated Social Web Summit (FSWS2010) in Portland, Oregon
2010-07-18 (C): IndieWeb concept refocused as build/selfdogfood/ownyourdata principles conceived by Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik in person in Portland, Oregon, the evening after FSWS2010
2010-10-06 (C): POSSE architecture drawn by Tantek at Mozilla, Mountain View[35] including backfeed functionality, then referred to as "reverse syndicate".
2010-10-08 (E): Open Web FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA, attended by Tantek where upon arriving he blogged What is the Open Web? before the opening session.
2010-12-31 (T): IndieWebCamp as an event name & date proposed by Tantek to Aaron on IM.(AIM logs/archives), and shortly thereafter reached out to Amber Case & Crystal Beasley to start organizing the event together.

2011

2011-??-?? (T): IndieWebCamp logo designed and created by Crystal Beasley
2011-02-12 (L): #indiewebcamp on Freenode channel archives started/launched (original link at launch was something indiewebcamp.com, actual channel use likely predates, needs research! and personal logs if anyone has them)
2011-02-?? (C): Ryan Barrett conceived of Bridgy as service for copying comments on shared copies of posts to your blog (backfeed before the term was coined) as a service.
2011-05-24…25 (E): W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser[36][37] at Mozilla, attended by Tantek[38][39]
2011-06-25 (E): First IndieWebCamp (based on the BarCamp model) organized by founders Aaron Parecki, Amber Case, Crystal Beasley, Tantek Çelik in Portland, Oregon, thus kicking off the IndieWebCamp movement.
2011-07-?? (E): Ryan Barrett started building first version of Bridgy.

2012

2012-01-08 (L): Ryan Barrett launched first version of Bridgy, a “a throwaway prototype” and the first service to copy comments on shared posts to the original posts on a WordPress blog (conceptually backfeed months before term defined). Supported Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, but not webmention (it didn't exist yet).
2012-03-10 (E): Rise of the IndieWeb at SXSW Interactive led by Tantek Çelik
2012-03-25 (C): First discussion of pingback+microformat-based cross-site comments[40]
2012-03-28 (I): IndieAuth implemented by Aaron Parecki[41]
2012-06-10 (T): backfeed term proposed by Barnaby Walters[42]
2012-06-20 (E): microformats.org 7th Anniversary Celebration at Mozilla, San Francisco.
2012-06-20 (T): POSSE term proposed by Tantek Çelik & Will Norris at that event[43]
2012-06-22 (T): PESOS term proposed by Tantek[44]
2012-06-30 (E): IndieWebCamp 2012 in Portland, Oregon
2012-09-09 (E): First IndieWebCampUK in Brighton, England
2012-10-05 (C): Idea behind Webmention (“Pingback2 with form data”) first mentioned by Tom Morris [45]
2012-10-22 (S): First Webmention specification published by Sandeep Shetty [46]
2012-10-22 (I) First release of php-mf2 microformats2 parser[47]
2012-10-26 (E): Federated Social Web Summit San Francisco

2013

2013-02-18 (I) First release of microformats-ruby microformats2 parser [48]
2013-04-19 (I): First indieweb post with federated comments by Laurent Eschenauer[49]
2013-04-19 (I): First cross-site indieweb reply post via Pingback by Aaron Parecki[50]
2013-05-29 (I): Second indieweb site to show federated comments by Aaron Parecki, via Pingback from Barnaby Walters[51]
2013-06-11 (I): First federated indieweb comments via Webmention and h-entry by Aaron Parecki to Sandeep Shetty[52]
2013-06-22 (E): Third IndieWebCamp 2013 in Portland, Oregon
2013-06-23 (C): comment propagation concept and mechanism proposed by Sandeep Shetty
2013-06-25 (I): First indieweb event post with RSVP support by Ben Werdmüller using idno
2013-06-25 (I): First cross-site indieweb RSVP post by Bret Comnes
2013-06-25 (I): Second cross-site indieweb RSVP post by Aaron Parecki using p3k
2013-07-01 (T): PESETAS term proposed by Tantek[53][54]
2013-08-07 (E): W3C Workshop on Social Standards in San Francisco, CA, USA
2013-09-07 (E): Second IndieWebCampUK 2013 in Brighton, England
2013-11-03…04 (E): First IndieWebCamp Los Angeles in Hollywood
2013-11-20 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in San Francisco
2013-12-01 (L): Ryan Barrett re-launched Bridgy with full webmention support (it originally only supported WordPress). Also added Instagram to the existing supported silos Facebook, Google+, and Twitter.
2013-12-04 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Portland

2014

2014-02-27 (I): First release of mf2py microformats2 parser[55]
2014-03-07 (E): First IndieWebCamp San Francisco held at Embassy Network, organized by Amber Case, Ben Werdmüller, Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks
2014-03-25 (L): Ryan Barrett launched Bridgy Publish, the first standalone POSSE service. It supports Facebook and Twitter posts, replies, likes, and event RSVPs.
2014-04-09 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Chicago
2014-04-20 (T): salmon-like upstream comment flow phrase introduced by Ashton McAllan to more precisely express comment-propagation
2014-04-26 (E): First IndieWebCamp NYC held at The New York Times, organized by Jeremy Zilar, Tantek Çelik, Brian J Brennan
2014-05-11 (E) WithKnown was started as a company by Ben Werdmüller
2014-05-12 (L): First This Week in the IndieWeb weekly newsletter!
2014-06-28 (E): IndieWebCamp 2014 simultaneously in Portland, NYC, Berlin.
2014-07-21 (L): Social Web Working Group launched by W3C with chairs Tantek Çelik, Evan Prodromou, Arnaud Le Hors, and W3C team contact Harry Halpin
2014-09-06 (E): Third IndieWebCampUK in Brighton, England
2014-09-10 (L): Known's first beta v0.6 was released
2014-09-28 (C)(T): "vouch" param, flow, term extension to webmention proposed by Tantek Çelik in IRC[56]
2014-10-11 (E): First IndieWebCamp Cambridge held at MIT, organized by Amber Case, Sandro Hawke, Tantek Çelik, Aaron Parecki
2014-10-12 (S): Vouch spec drafted by Tantek Çelik on IWC wiki after whiteboarding flow at IWC Cambridge
2014-10-17 (I): Vouch personal site implementations deployed by Aaron Parecki & Ben Roberts
2014-11-29 (I): Webmention deployed by Pingback inventor Stuart Langridge on personal site.[57]

2015

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2015-03-19 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Cambridge held at MIT, organized by Ben Roberts, Sandro Hawke, Tantek Çelik, David Shanske
2015-05-09 (E): First IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf organized by Marc Thiele, Jeremy Keith, Aaron Parecki
2015-06-09 (T): salmentions term introduced by Ashton McAllan to refer to salmon-like upstream comment flow.
2015-06-09 (I): First salmentions implementation by Kyle Mahan
2015-07-11 (E): IndieWebCamp 2015 simultaneously in Brighton & Portland
2015-07-12 (I): First SWAT0 implementation across 3 sites & implementations by Ben Roberts, Aaron Parecki, Kevin Marks, Kyle Mahan[58][59].
2015-07-25 (E): First IndieWebCamp Edinburgh organized by Amy Guy, Harry Reeder, James Baster
2015-07-31 (I): First release of the Haskell microformats2-parser[60]
2015-08-13 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Edinburgh
2015-11-07 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Cambridge held at MIT, organized by Aaron Parecki, Amy Guy, Ben Roberts, Sandro Hawke
2015-12-03 (E): Second IndieWebCamp San Francisco held at Mozilla San Francisco, organized by Tantek Çelik, Kyle Mahan, Andi Galpern
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2016

2016-01-12 (S): Webmention FPWD (First Public Working Draft) published by W3C
2016-01-13 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Los Angeles
2016-01-22 (E): Third IndieWebCamp NYC held at Mozilla New York City organized by Tantek Çelik, David Shanske, Lara Fischer-Zernin
2016-03-14 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp Cambridge held at MIT, organized by Aaron Parecki, Amy Guy, Ben Roberts, Sandro Hawke
2016-04-10 (L): Webmention.rocks validator launched [61]
2016-04-16 (E): First IndieWebCamp Nürnberg organized by Joschi Kuphal, Aaron Parecki, Tantek Çelik, Jeremy Keith
2016-05-07 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf organized by Marc Thiele, Jeremy Keith, Aaron Parecki
2016-05-24 (S): Webmention CR (Candidate Recommendation) published by W3C
2016-06-03 (E): First IndieWeb Summit (6th main annual IndieWebCamp) held in Portland, Oregon
2016-06-15 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Bellingham
2016-07-04 (L): Moved the indiewebcamp.com website to indieweb.org (rename to IndieWeb)
2016-08-27 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp NYC held at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, New York City organized by Tantek Çelik, David Shanske, Emma Hodge
2016-09-21 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Baltimore
2016-09-24 (E): Fifth IndieWebCamp Brighton
2016-11-01 (S): Webmention PR (Proposed Recommendation) published by W3C
2016-11-04 (E): Second IndieWebCamp LA (first was 2013/Hollywood)
2016-11-04 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Berlin
2016-11-16 (E): Fifth IndieWebCamp Cambridge
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2017

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2017-01-12 (S): Webmention REC (Recommendation) published by W3C. Exactly 1 year after FPWD (fastest W3C FPWD to REC).
2017-02-08 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in Berlin
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2017-05-04 (E): First IndieWebCamp Bellingham
2017-05-13 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2017-05-20 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Nuremberg
2017-05-23 (S): Micropub published as a W3C Recommendation
2017-06-24 (E): Second IndieWeb Summit (7th main annual IndieWebCamp) in Portland, Oregon
2017-09-08 (E): First IndieWeb at “CAMPFIRE” in Dortmund, Germany
2017-09-30 (E): First IndieWebCamp Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey
2017-09-30 (E): Fifth IndieWebCamp NYC
2017-11-04 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Berlin
2017-12-09 (E): First IndieWebCamp Austin
2017-12-01…31 (EILS): First IndieWeb Challenge ships something 23 out of 31 days of December!

2018

2018-01-10 (S): JF2 published as a W3C Note!
2018-01-18 (S): Post Type Discovery published as a W3C Note!
2018-01-20 (E): First IndieWebCamp Baltimore
2018-01-22 (L): microformats2 support launched in default Jekyll theme Minima v2.2.0
2018-01-23 (S): WebSub published as a W3C Recommendation!
2018-01-23 (S): IndieAuth published as a W3C Note!
2018-02-13 (D): Social Web Working Group discontinued by W3C, at closure chairs were Tantek Çelik & Evan Prodromou, W3C team contacts Amy Guy & Sandro Hawke
2018-05-05 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2018-06-27 (E): Third IndieWeb Summit (8th main annual IndieWebCamp) in Portland, Oregon
2018-07-31 (E): Third IndieWebCamp SF hosted by Mozilla, San Francisco, CA
2018-09-22…23 (E): First IndieWebCamp Oxford
2018-09-28…29 (E): Sixth IndieWebCamp NYC
2018-10-20 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg
2018-11-02 (E): IndieWeb Organizers Meetup Berlin 2018 hosted by Mozilla, Berlin
2018-11-03…04 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp Berlin hosted by Mozilla, Berlin
2018-12-01…31 (EILS): Second IndieWeb Challenge successfully ships something every day of December!

2019

2019-01-28…2019-02-01 (E): First IndieWebWeek Vlissingen!
2019-02-23…24 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Austin
2019-03-08…10 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Online
2019-03-30…31 (E): First IndieWebCamp New Haven!
2019-05-04…05 (E): Fifth IndieWebCamp Berlin hosted by Mozilla, Berlin
2019-05-11…12 (E): Fifth IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2019-05-18…19 (E): First IndieWebCamp Utrecht!
2018-06-29…30 (E): Fourth IndieWeb Summit (9th main annual IndieWebCamp) in Portland, Oregon
2019-09-28 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Oxford
2019-09-28…29 (E): First IndieWebCamp Amsterdam
2019-10-05…06 (E): Seventh IndieWebCamp NYC
2019-10-19…20 (E): Sixth IndieWebCamp Brighton
2019-11-23…24 (E): Sixth IndieWebCamp Berlin hosted by Mozilla, Berlin
2019-12-07…08 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp SF
2019-12-11 (E): First Homebrew Website Club in San Diego

2020

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2020-02-08…09 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Online
2020-02-22…23 (E): Third IndieWebCamp Austin
2020-03-14…15 (E): First IndieWebCamp London (virtual, first online IWC in GMT)
2020-06-27…28 (E): First online IndieWebCamp West Coast
2020-11-14…15 (E): First online IndieWebCamp East Coast
2020-12-25 (E): First online IndieWeb Create Day
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2021

2021-01-23 (E): Popup: Respectful Responses
2021-05-15 (E): Popup: Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io
2021-06-26 (E): Popup: Very Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website
2021-07-10 (E): IndieWeb Create Day
2021-07-24 (E): Popup: Microsub
2021-08-28 (E): Popup: IndieAuth
2021-09-25 (E): Popup: Gardens and Streams II
2021-10-09 (E): IndieWeb Create Day
2021-10-16 (E): Popup: IndieAuth2
2021-11-11 (E): Sixth IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2021-12-25 (E): IndieWeb Create Day

2022

2022-01-22 (E): Popup: Analog Meets Online
2022-02-19 (E): Popup: Personal Libraries
2022-03-05 (E): IndieWeb Create Day
2022-04-30...2022-05-01 (E): Seventh IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2022-07-31 (E): IndieWeb Create Day
2022-09-03...04 (E): Seventh IndieWebCamp Berlin
2022-09-18 (E): IndieWeb Create Day
2022-11-27 (E): Popup: How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable
2022-12-26 (E): IndieWeb Create Day

2023

2023-07-29 (E) Popup: Build a Website in an Hour
2023-09-30 (E) Popup: Build a Website in an Hour
2023-10-22 (E): Popup: Multi-Lingual Personal Websites
2023-10-28...29 (E): Fourth IndieWebCamp Nuremberg
2023-11-24 (E): IndieWeb Create Day - Build Don't Buy
2023-12-16...17 (E): First IndieWebCamp San Diego
2023-12-25 (E): IndieWeb CreateFest

2024

2024-03-09…10 (E): Seventh IndieWebCamp Brighton
2024-05-11…12 (E): Eighth IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
2024-08-25 (E): Tenth IndieWebCamp Portland
2024-11-09…10 (E): Eighth IndieWebCamp Berlin
2024-12-07…08 (E): Second IndieWebCamp San Diego
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Anniversaries

Particularly notable or impactful events from the above, that are worth celebrating as birthdays or anniversaries:

January

08:
- 2012: (L): Ryan Barrett launched first version of Bridgy
12:
- 2016: (S) Webmention W3C FPWD
- 2017: (S) Webmention W3C REC
23:
- 2018: (S): WebSub W3C REC
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February

01:
- 1997: (T): indie web phrase introduced in a French with English translation manifesto
- 2010: (C)(T): RelMeAuth concept, term, user flow, fallback algorithms all described
03:
- 2010: (C): backfeed concept described as "reverse syndication"
11:
- 2004: (T): microformats term introduced by Tantek Çelik & Kevin Marks
12:
- 2011: (L): #indiewebcamp IRC chat archive launched
13:
- 2018: (D): Social Web Working Group closed.
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March

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April

19
- 2013 (I): First cross-site indieweb reply post via Pingback by Aaron Parecki[62]
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May

02
- 2010 (C): microformats 2.0 proposed at FOO East[63]
03
- 2010 (T): indie web term published publicly as contrast to an (implied) silo example. See also #1997 use of term.

June

11
- 2013 (I): First federated indieweb comments via Webmention and h-entry by Aaron Parecki to Sandeep Shetty[64]
20
- 2005 (L): microformats.org launched
- 2012 (T): POSSE term proposed by Tantek Çelik & Will Norris
25
- 2011 (E): First IndieWebCamp (based on the BarCamp model) organized by founders in Portland, Oregon, kicking off the IndieWebCamp movement.
- 2013 (I): First indieweb event post and cross-site RSVPs

July

04
- 2016 (L): indieweb.org launched as expansion from indiewebcamp.com (rename to IndieWeb)

18
- 2010 (C): IndieWeb refined as based on make what you need/selfdogfood/ownyourdata principles conceived by Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik in person in Portland, Oregon, the evening after FSWS2010

August

16
- 2004 (S): XFN 1.1 specified, introducing key identity building block rel=me

September

October

November

December

Main article: December

15
- 2003 (S): XFN 1.0 specified by Tantek Çelik[65], Eric Meyer[66], and Matt Mullenweg[67]
16-17
- 2023 (E): First IndieWebCamp San Diego'

Needs Dates and incorporation above

Need Dates/Who/Citations for the following, creators and the first example of each:

Webmention

YYYY-MM-DD (L) webmention.rocks test suite completed
- Earliest archive.org capture of https://webmention.rocks on 2016-06-02 shows 21 discovery tests, 2 update tests, 1 delete test, 2 receiver tests. The discovery tests existed as early as 2016-04-17 based on the details below.
- 2016-04-09: Tests 1 through 6 published
- 2016-04-10: First mention in indieweb chat
- 2016-04-14: Aaron Parecki submits post from his site for tests 1-20
- 2016-04-17: Tantek Çelik submits post from his site for tests 1-21
- 2016-04-20: First published to WD under Implementation > Tools https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160420/
- 2016-04-25: Aaron Parecki emailed SocialWG list about CR Exit Criteria for Webmention in editor's draft
  - Closest archive.org snapshot is of the 2016-04-29 editor's draft captured 2016-05-10
- 2016-05-03: Aaron Parecki emailed SocialWG list about updated WD mentioning it "includes a link to the test suite"
  - Think this refers to the 2016-04-29 WD? Don't see a version with publication date 2016-05-03.
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ interop senders & 2+ receivers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports
- TODO: refer to github commit history: https://github.com/w3c/webmention/tree/master/implementation-reports
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 10+ interop senders & 10+ receivers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports
- TODO: refer to github commit history: https://github.com/w3c/webmention/tree/master/implementation-reports

Micropub

YYYY-MM-DD (CT) Micropub first proposed as a concept and/or named as simple mf vocab + OAuth API to post content
YYYY-MM-DD (S) first draft published on the web (at Micropub?)
YYYY-MM-DD (S) FPWD/CR/PR/REC at W3C
YYYY-MM-DD (L) micropub.rocks test suite launched
YYYY-MM-DD (L) micropub.rocks test suite completed
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ interop clients & 2+ servers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 10+ interop clients & 10+ servers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports

WebSub

YYYY-MM-DD (CT) PubSubHubbub proposed as concept and/or named
YYYY-MM-DD (S) PubSubHubbub drafts published (dates & permalinks)
YYYY-MM-DD (S) FWPD at W3C (as PubSub?)
YYYY-MM-DD (T) WebSub named (at Social Web WG)
YYYY-MM-DD (S) first WD/CR/PR at W3C as (WebSub)
YYYY-MM-DD (L) websub.rocks test suite launched
YYYY-MM-DD (L) websub.rocks test suite completed
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ interop publishers & 2+ hubs & 2+ subscribers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 10+ interop publishers & 10+ hubs & 10+ subscribers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports

IndieAuth

YYYY-MM-DD (CT) IndieAuth as a concept and/or named as something beyond RelMeAuth
YYYY-MM-DD (S) first specified as a way to do delegated authentication

WebActions

YYYY-MM-DD (CT) Webactions first proposed as a concept and/or named
YYYY-MM-DD (I) Webactions implemented cross-site (with or without a library)

Microsub

2017-04-02 (CT) Microsub first proposed conceptually and named
2017-04-09 (S) first draft published on the web at Microsub-spec
2017-11-24 (I - server) initial private launch of Aperture [68]
2017-11-27 (L - client) Together adds Microsub support [69] available at https://alltogethernow.io
2018-01-27 (I - client) Indigenous iOS app adds Microsub support
2018-02-27 (L - client) Monocle launched at https://monocle.p3k.io
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ interop clients & 2+ servers impls confirmed by regular use
YYYY-MM-DD (L) test suite launched
YYYY-MM-DD (L) test suite completed
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ interop clients & 2+ servers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 10+ interop clients & 10+ servers impls confirmed via test suite impl reports

like

YYYY-MM-DD (C) conceived as a noun, with permalink, in contrast to ActivityStreams "like" verb
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first IndieWeb favorite/like published and original notified via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first IndieWeb likes displayed on a post received via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ published on different sites with different tools/code (and webmentions sent)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ sites (with different implementations) displaying them received via webmentions
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ published (same criteria)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ sites displaying received (same criteria)

repost

YYYY-MM-DD (C) conceived as a noun, with permalink, in contrast to ActivityStreams "share" verb
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first Indieweb repost published and original notified via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first IndieWeb reposts displayed on a post received via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ published on different sites with different tools/code (and webmentions sent)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ sites (with different implementations) displaying them received via webmentions
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ published (same criteria)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ sites displaying received (same criteria)

RSVP

YYYY-MM-DD (C) conceived as a noun, with permalink, in contrast to ActivityStreams "RSVP" verb (or whatever their responses to events were for attending and such)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first Indieweb RSVP published and original notified via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) first IndieWeb RSVPs displayed on an event received via webmention
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ published on different sites with different tools/code (and webmentions sent)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 2+ sites (with different implementations) displaying them received via webmentions
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ published (same criteria)
YYYY-MM-DD (I) 3+ sites displaying received (same criteria)

IndieMark

When was IndieMark

(C) conceived as a concept
(T) named as a term
(S) first specified

more microformats history

Need Dates/Who/Citations for the following, creators and the first example of each:

some of the microformats history may be found here:
- http://microformats.org/wiki/history-of-microformats

hCard

(CT) hCard first proposed as a concept and/or named as vCard in HTML by re-using vCard vocab as HTML class names
(S) hCard first draft spec published (was on Technorati dev wiki (defunct) before microformats.org, check archive.org)
(S) hCard specified on microformats.org

h-card

(CT) h-card first proposed as a concept and/or named (likely at FOO East session)
(S) h-card first specified at microformats.org/wiki/h-card

hCalendar

(CT) hCalendar first proposed as a concept and/or named as vCard in HTML by re-using vCard vocab as HTML class names
(S) hCalendar first draft spec published (was on Technorati dev wiki (defunct) before microformats.org, check archive.org)
(S) hCalendar specified on microformats.org

h-event

(CT) h-event first proposed as a concept and/or named (likely at FOO East session)
(S) h-event first specified at microformats.org/wiki/h-event

hReview

(CT) hReview first proposed as a concept and/or named
(S) hReview first draft spec published (likely was on Technorati dev wiki (defunct) before microformats.org, check archive.org)
(S) hReview specified on microformats.org

h-review

... similarly

hAtom

(CT) hAtom first proposed as a concept and/or named
(S) hAtom first draft spec published (maybe was on Technorati dev wiki (defunct) before microformats.org? check archive.org)
(S) hAtom specified on microformats.org

h-entry

(CT) h-entry first proposed as a concept and/or named (likely at FOO East session)
(S) h-entry first specified at microformats.org/wiki/h-entry

microformats2

(CT) microformats2 first proposed as a concept and/or named (likely at FOO East session)
(S) microformats2 first specified as a format
(S) microformats2-parsing spec first published on microformats.org
(I) first microformats2 parser implemented
- in each language, PHP, Python, JS, node, Ruby, Java
(L) mf2 test suite launched
(L) mf2 test suite relatively completed
(I) first microformats2 parser implemented
(I) second mf2 parser
(I) third

RelMeAuth

(I) RelMeAuth first implemented / library
(L) RelMeAuth as a service first launched (IndieAuth.com?)

Bridgy

YYYY-MM-DD (L) launched additional silo backfeed support (one by one)

Bridgy Publish

YYYY-MM-DD (L) launched additional silo support (one by one)

silo.pub

YYYY-MM-DD (C) conceived as an open source library / service to provide a Micropub-to-Twitter posting API (and other silos)
YYYY-MM-DD (L) launched with support for silos (which in particular)
YYYY-MM-DD (L) launched additional silo support (one by one)

needs cleanup

The following need cleanup for what aspects need to be documented as historical events of what types (conceived, term defined, specified, implemented, event, etc.)

Blog posts of why IndieWeb is important.

Webmention.io and pingback.me before that

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Note: Below is a draft of unorganized data with rough dates. Needs cleanup. Source: @caseorganic conversation with @t, IndieWebCamp UK 2013-09-08

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2003:

Rise of Pingback Spam

Decline of Personal Sites

Distracted by RSS/ATOM wars, blogs began to decline
Hosted blogs, people turned to social networks more than blogging
Eventual fade of RSS/ATOM

2007:

DiSo initiative launched

2010: State of Blogs

Not much personal blog activity
WordPress heavy and dominant
DiSo initiative last post - future of DiSo

2013:

Github hosted blogs, Medium for frontpage Hacker News

Siloed blogging and writing frameworks.

MEDIUM: Don’t claim ownership but reserve the right to use your content even if they get acquired in the future.
Wikia: Communities don’t own their content and can’t transfer it off their site.

Differences between 2013 and 2003

Short status updates became an acceptable form of content
Easy enough to show an entire conversation or a link to another page

2011 (E): IndieWebCamp Conf

Purpose: Show, don’t tell
Builders Only. Must have your own domain name and actively build stuff for it to attend.
Use your domain name and OpenID to sign into the IndieWebCamp MediaWiki. http://indiewebcamp.com/
Could only add self to the attendee list if you use your domain name to log into the site.

2012:

IndieAuth implemented on IndieWebCamp.com (replaced OpenID)
2012-06 (E): IndieWebCamp2012: changed from Builders-only to Creators-only to more explicitly include UX+design
- Again, could only add self to the attendee list if you use your domain name to log into the site.
Domain Name, rel=me, mediawiki
2012-09 (E): IndieWebCampUK 2012 (first in the UK)