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Roblox History

Roblox, is a platform with a million of different games to play with friends, but how does Roblox start his journey?

In 1990 David Baszucki and Erik Cassel -- Dead in February 2013 -- worked togheter at "Intercative Physics" which in 1998, was sold for 20$ millions to MSC Software, where David Baszucki worked to 2000 until 2002. In 2002 David Baszucki, left the MSC Software and he founded the Baszucki & Assocaties from 2003-2004.

The start of a great idea In 2003, David Baszucki and Erik cassel, worked togheter for an early prototype of Roblox, led with name of Dynablocks, after renamed "Roblox" in 2005. Roblox was officially realeased at September 1st 2006. The game wasnt so complicated, there were nothing more than 10-15 games. One of the most iconic one is "Sword Fight On The Heights", created by the one and only, John Shedletsky, or Telamon at the time, this game is still playable with around 20-45 active players.

Events, In January 17th 2007, The first Roblox contest and event was started, the "Homestead Forniture Making Contest". The contest's creator was Telamon trough Roblox blog, and the prizes were pretty cool: All winning models will be added to the tool box on Roblox Studio, and the early access by 1 week for their custom shirts and pants arriving at the end of the contest. The contest will recieve points for their creativity, construction, attetion to the details, and scale. They can also get extra points if in the description they wrote how to publish a model on Roblox. 9 winners will be chosen for winning the grand prize, some of the winners are the future heros of Roblox, Like: MrDoomBringer, one of the best moderators in the golden era; Miked, the creator of one of the 2007 event map and winner of many contest and events.

Speaking of contest, this one cant be not nominated; The "Wonders Of The World" This is the 2nd event in 2007, and the only one which Roblox gave a in real life prize! For winning this contest, you had to create the best creation of real life monuments, and the place with most of visits will be the winner. There were 4 winners: WWCFox1 871 visits with Statue of Zeus at Olympia; WWCBuilder 830 visits with Samurai Fortress; WWCPyramids 598 visits with The Great Pyramid of Robloxia; WWCAre92 496 visits with Wonder of World Pyramid The winners shirts will be given out on March 17th, the shirt had at the top right of the shirt wrote "Master Builder" and at the back there will be their Build.

The events will be eventually closed defenitally on 2018, with the re-aperture on 2024 with "The Hunt" event.

Incidents

Trough Roblox history, there will be so manu incidents. Like the 2014 Twitch incident Yes, Roblox had a Twitch channel, where they streame every week with sneaky peeks, answering questions etc. Two moderators which they host the stream, after closing their cam, they forgot to close the microphone, and said obscenes about Roblox. The stream was immediatly closed, and the hosts of the stream were terminated and fired. After some days, the Roblox Twitch channel was closed by Twitch team forever

Some years before, on April 1st 2012, some accounts were compromises with the hacking of the website from unknowed hackers. Most of the biggest name were compromises, Minish, coolboy10000,ReeseMcBlox,are17, ad so many innocents accounts were given for no reason tousand and tousand of robux and get terminated, it was completely chaos, resolved only with a website maintenance closing temporary the website. The innocents account will never be unbanned, causing big criticism by the community.