User:Cloudy176/Timeline

This is a timeline of Googology Wiki, written in in-universe style! (oh, and all times are UTC??)

More timelines: Timeline of googology, L.10.

Formation Era (Dec 2008 ~ Apr 2009)

 * December 5, 2008: The planet of Googology Wiki is created on the Galaxy of Wikia, with the underlying natural force of Default. Followed by 100 zeroes, the Big Hoss, watches the planet from up ahead while it forms.
 * December 5: The Spirit of Googology reaches the planet. Googol, googolplex and others first appear on the planet, as well as a category for numbers.
 * December 6: A second user visits the planet, and worked with FB100Z until December 17, 2008.
 * December 6: Simple extensions of googol, such as googo- appears. Googol and googolplex got semi-protected.
 * December 8: Up-arrow notation, Chained arrow notation, and BEAF the Mighty Shark appears and swims on the oceans on the planet.
 * December 9: Million, milliard and billion appears.
 * December 10-14: Many meteors fell to the planet, each containing googologisms such as giggol, tritri, mega, gaggol, and boogol.
 * December 12: An early roadmap is created.
 * December 15: The Mighty Graham visits the planet.
 * December 25: About this day, nearly all Bowers' Infinity Scrapers numbers up to quadragol lived on the planet.
 * January, 2009: The construction of underground pipeworks began.
 * January 27: Although million and billion existed, larger -illions such as trillion were not on the planet until this day.
 * January 29-30: The Factorials invade the planet.
 * February 14-16: A particularly notable meteor shower occurred, each containing Bowers' googologisms, such as goobol, gongulus and the legendary meameamealokkapoowa oompa.
 * February 16-17: The meteor storm continues, now bringing Bowers' illion numbers such as killillion, ikyotillion and multillion.
 * February 17-18: Numbers come from a blog, which its creator later turned out to be Followed by 100 zeroes himself.
 * February 20-21: The creatures on the planet feared of the apocalypse.
 * February 27: The Master of Time came and worked until March 2, 2009.
 * March 3-8: Another person about time worked on this period.
 * March 5: The volcanic rocks on the planet began to expand and explode.
 * March 23: SI prefixes, previously on one house, decided to make houses for each SI prefix.
 * March 31-April 9: Kjhf works on the planet.
 * April 7: A shrine to Sbiis Saibian is created.
 * On the same day, Saibian's planet on the Google Pages Galaxy (now known as Google Sites Galaxy) opens the portal to this planet, thus establishing a wormhole.
 * April 20: Rayo's number appears, although it existed long time ago before the planet existed.
 * April 27, 2009: Followed by 100 zeroes disappears from the planet. From then on, the planet was forgotten, only a little improvements were made.

Long Frozen Era (Apr 2009 ~ Feb 2011)

 * August 11, 2009: On Saibian's planet, a second continent was found. Unfortunately, the planet froze up immediately after its discovery, stopping development for more than a year.
 * December 21: A guy from space appears, creating many houses. Most of them were later destroyed.
 * March 16, 2010: Followed by 100 zeroes briefly re-appeared, destroying original content on the planet. (It is suspected that the "original content" is not original at all.)
 * March 22: The Ace appeared, and he created another bunch of houses.
 * March 26 ~ April 13: Ixfd64, an administrator on the English Wikipedia appears on the planet and worked, creating Fermat number on April 4, 2010.
 * April 2, May 9: The Ace re-appeared, and then disappeared again.
 * October 10: Saibian's planet was thawed, which strangely coincides with the discovery of a third continent.
 * December: The Ace appears again.
 * February 15, 2011: Clouds appear on the planet.

First Developing Era (Feb 2011 ~ Jan 2012)

 * February 22, 2011: Followed by 100 zeroes, the Big Hoss, finally made a serious return to the planet, with the new name "FB100Z", which is still used today. A page about an exotic you-can't-overflow-this calculator is created, while the return of him caused many old houses to be destroyed.

The List Period

 * March 11: Cloudy creates the One True List of Googologisms.
 * March 21-May 14: An attempt to brighten up the planet is made.
 * May 25: The Ace gains superpower from an external source, becoming as powerful as FB100Z himself. As a result, a cataclysm occurs, causing many buildings to be destroyed and/or sent back in time, particularly those that are brightened.
 * May 26: The page Numbers was created by Ace as an attempt to create a list of real numbers. However, it was misused a long time later, and was destroyed on August 2012.
 * July 8: A house is created on the planet just to horrify mathematicians.
 * August 21: Cloudy decided to divide the list into parts.
 * November 13: FB100Z reappears, giving Cloudy admin rights. Arrow Notation is renamed to Arrow notation.

The Hyper-E Period

 * November 19: Sbiis Saibian introduces his Hyper-E Notation.
 * November 27: From this day and on, Cloudy creates Hyper-E numbers such as grangol and gorgegol, one at each day, until January 18, 2012.
 * December 8: Exponentiation is introduced to the community, after been used implicitly for a long time. The Bot is built by FB100Z.
 * December 9: An attempt to introduce BEAF to newcomers has made.

Short Frozen Era (Jan 2012 ~ Mar 2012)

 * January-February, 2012: FB100Z and Cloudy both disappears, and the planet was forgotten again.
 * March 1: Cloudy came back, and after creating more Hyper-E numbers such as goolda, he activates the Version-2 Navigation.
 * March 18: The German people has taken another planet on the star system, and built the Googology Wiki in their language. It was unnoticed in the Main Planet until February 11, 2013.

Made-up Number Era (Mar 2012 ~ Jul 2012)

 * March 23, 2012: Some mario creates the largest number, known as gigoombaverse. It actually was the largest number on the wiki, apart from Rayo's number. The creation of this number marked the beginning of the Made-up Number Era.
 * April 1: Sbiis Saibian mentioned gigoombaverse on an April Fools' joke about Graham's number.
 * April 18: Aarex, the greatest non-official googologism creator, joins. (Actually, he [ existed] long before this era.)
 * April 18 ~ May 31: Many new numbers, based on earlier numbers, were created, such as googollargeplex, mega-ooga, ggggol, great goshomity, -illioillion, bodgahlah, centougol, omnillion, -byt, etc. as well as infinite numbers and small numbers (it was illegal for them for having their own home). Also, they are added to List of googologisms and Numbers, etc.
 * Around this time, the people on the planet started building a special kind of houses with warded material so it cannot be altered by somebody else (other than divine beings). They called them "blogs".
 * May 30: The Hypercube creates an account, after spending months contributing as an IP.

The Peak of Made-up Numbers

 * June, 2012: The creation of made-up numbers reached its peak, as more made-up numbers were created, such as pentatet, billid, sextiggulus, googolinfplex, omniexplosion, vundatri, timegol, bllion (not to be confused with billion), trkar, gog, bed, etc. There were so many of them that I couldn't even write all of them here!
 * Before the beginning of the era, there were about 700 articles. At the end of the era, there were about 1,600.
 * July 10: FB100Z began to delete all those made-up numbers, closing the Made-up Number Era.

Cleanup Era (Jul 2012 ~ ???)

 * July 19, 2012 and onwards: The Hypercube was given admin rights, as him and FB100Z began to clean-up the mess from the previous era. It continued until about January 2013. Most buildings created from the previous era were completely destroyed but still in some people's memory, and some hidden buildings actually survive to the present day.
 * Addition and Multiplication was also destroyed due to its rare (direct) use in googology. It has been rebuilt 3 months later, however.

Unnamed

 * September 8, 2012: The numbers are now grouped in families.
 * November 21, 2012: The FGH standard is introduced, locating on the remains of a copy of an article on another galaxy (which arrived on the planet on September 14, 2012 and caused a 0o)
 * December 8, 2012: Googology Wiki celebrates its fourth birthday. A day later, One to Infinity, the e-book brainchild of Sbiis Saibian and GWiki's step-sister also celebrates its fourth birthday.
 * Actually this was celebrated on the wrong day. The wiki was created on December 5, as seen on near the top of this page.
 * December 13: The Googol Broadcasting System started broadcasting their news on a screen on the Spaceport.
 * December 21: The made-up number apocalypse occurred.
 * December 26: The research for Croutonillion, the One True Salad Number has begun.
 * January 4, 2013: The numbers below 100 having their own residence is no longer forbidden, as it turned out that they were used as the building blocks of lots of houses the whole time. (By the way, anything larger than 1 is a large number after all!)
 * Consequently, on that day and the following 2 weeks or so, an apartment housing integers from 0 to 99 has been built.
 * Apparently, these small numbers were clever; they planned on when to move into the apartment, so at one time, when it was dark, the turned-on lights from each house made the word "HI".
 * January 6: Adam P. Goucher has claimed that he beat Rayo with his Xi function. This later turned out to be a false claim.
 * January 11: A fourth continent was found on Saibian's planet. The natives there was seen worshiping Jonathan Bowers' arrays.

The Cascading-E Period

 * January 22, 2013: Sbiis Saibian has constructed a greatly strengthened version of the Hyper-E notation, now known as the Cascading-E notation. These notations are now known as the Extensible-E franchise.
 * January 23: As a quick reaction, the template has been built, along with several residential homes for the newly made numbers.
 * January 28: The Penguin visits the planet for the first time.
 * His first appearance looked like a kind of fish that is commonly found on the Wikia Galaxy. However, turns out that it was a disguise, and he was a penguin all along.
 * January 30: Thanks to the quick work, the house for the Great and Terrible Tethrathoth is ready!
 * February 14: An Italian crafter started selling M-in-a-box, created using various mechanical pieces from superfactorial, Graham's number and chained arrows.
 * March 12, 2013: The claim that Xi beats Rayo was contested for the first time.
 * Eventually the people started to believe again that Rayo was still the champion.
 * March 19, 2013: As the numbers have the List, the functions now have their own list as well!
 * March 27: The Hypercube started building some robots. Soon, the Penguin and Deedlit followed the leader.
 * March 29: The people living in the lower attic now also have their residence on the planet, due to its importance of the construction of the standard of FGH.
 * Yay uncharted territory!
 * April 1: Too much googology has sent FB100Z off the deep end.
 * It is very hard to understand, though they are trying to learn that for eternity. And to be noted, the n stands for number.
 * April 3: The golf courses are now open. Anyone can try, but the simpler the better.
 * April 8: Deedlit built a robot that can win Graham's number in a boxing match, with only 25 spare parts (the previous champion robot has 64 parts).
 * April 10: Two monsters with lots of heads got a living place on the planet, after one of them being summoned by the Penguin as powerful robots about four days ago. One of them had only one kind of head, while the other's heads were much more diverse, and therefore much more powerful.
 * April 23: The Department of bubbly negative numberbottles was founded.
 * April 29, 2013: Cloudy found out that the apartment for small numbers was too prominent, and it was causing insomnia to its residents.
 * May 8, 2013: The lucky G. M. Giaquaxul got the 2000th home built in the planet!
 * May 12: The Singaporean Guy offered a strawberry for centillion dollars.
 * Also, FB100Z offered a centillion waffles.
 * May 28: The Singaporean Guy is arrested by the Galactic Police for harassment towards a citizen on another planet.
 * Earlier on May 28: Expansion Pack IV of Bird's MMORPG (the NSAN) was released, with more quests added. Later another expansion pack with the same name gets released, with much different content.
 * June 5: A big thought experiment begins...
 * June 15: Another Googology Big Number Wiki is built on another planet, this time in Dutch.
 * June 19 ~ July 17: Deedlit wrote a series of blog posts about ordinal notations.
 * June 21: Expansion Pack IV of Bird's MMORPG was re-released with different content. This pack takes in an alternate timeline where the protagonist does an overhaul on their equipment rather than jumping to even harder dungeons, allowing them to unlock even harder dungeons such as the Space of Clueless Galaxies.
 * July 11: Research shown that a well-done promise can actually be powerful enough that even ZFC cannot handle it.
 * September 2: Someone somehow managed to define something that cannot be defined due to its definition.
 * September 27: A 24-part machine, which is an upgraded version of Deedlit's 25-part machine, joins the Beyond-G club.
 * October 7: The machine makers eliminated a single part of that machine, and it still made into the BG club.
 * October 17: A fish appears in the eastern ocean. No, it's not a penguin in disguise; it's a real fish.
 * There are some numbers following the fish's tail.
 * October 26: The planet was mentioned on a billboard on the Video Galaxy.
 * November 28: The people from the middle and upper attic (other than the youngest one, which was already living on the planet) got an invitation ticket to the Thanksgiving party on the planet.
 * December 1, 2013 ~ February 2014: The Introduction to BEAF is undergoing a major expansion/reconstruction!
 * December 5, 2013: FIVE YEARS! (on the correct day, this time!)
 * FB100Z demonstrated mad artistic talent.
 * December 6: A manga girl says: "巨大数研究 Wiki!"
 * More precisely, the ghost of a daughter of the boss of a bar appearing in a webcomic about sushi and googology.
 * December 21~22: The talk-page orphanage massacre occurred. DBNNB will never forget the incident.
 * This is followed by a killing spree of many redirects.
 * January 9, 2014: The One True Formalization of BEAF?
 * This is followed by a killing spree of many redirects.
 * January 9, 2014: The One True Formalization of BEAF?

Saibian's Rebuttal Era (Jan 2014 ~ Jun 2014)

 * January 18: An unfinished version of a new extension (dubbed xE^) of the Extensible-E franchise has been leaked. Aarex took the opportunity to post an analysis and extension on his house. Then suddenly GLaDOS appeared and threw it into the incinerator.
 * January 30: xE^ (see Jan 18, 2014) was actually released. With more new number names than we ever seen!
 * February 11: T. Godextathol, a citizen on the city of xE^, gets the 3000th residence.
 * February 25: A building for an "indescribable" number by Sam was built. Whoever "Sam" is, it would be a great breakthrough if it was well-defined. It didn't, and the building just crumbled away.
 * The culture shock caused by this number caused many people to remember it. And later in October...
 * March 11: Wyth built a 7-part TM based on the champion 6-part TM after he went a trip to another galaxy and found someone claiming that activating the 6-part champion at a different starting environment gave it a lower class-6 number of lifespan. He gave it a try.
 * March 12: Cloudy proved the claim. A new bound for BB(7) was established. History was made.
 * March 26: Sprach Zarathustra went to the olive garden and ordered extra croutons.
 * March 28: FB100Z suggested bringing numbers to the world.
 * April 3: Saibian, being fed up with all those croutons, built an institution for newbie GWiki citizens.
 * April 4: The Expansion Pack V of Bird's MMORPG has been released. Also, a new server for that game has been created right on this planet, by Bird himself.
 * April 10, 2014 ~ ???: &#91;FACEPALM INTENSIFIES&#93;
 * April 22?: Section 17271289737475698637398725897298725 of Saibian's web book has been released. He describes how bunnies could give a serious threat about the universe's existence.
 * May 8: Saibian installed the final extension of Hyper-Hyper-Extended-Cascading-E Notation, probably just to horrify us.
 * May 17: FB100Z calculated found the actual value of Rayo's number.
 * May 21: The Left Associatives Polyate App is now open source!
 * May 25: Twin arrows became the new mascot, replacing billion.
 * Also on May 25: New lifeforms were found on the planet, which can live forever and then some.
 * May 28: About 9 months after the undefinable thing appeared, it disappeared into a puff of logic and geeky discussions.
 * Also on May 28: The Fonster Dude acquired a planet on the Google Sites galaxy and started filling it with pointless things.
 * May 29: On another planet of the system, the Fish got an invitation to the center of the galaxy. Unsurprisingly, he introduced the planet of Googology Wiki there.
 * June 8: 3↑↑↑3 people got dust specks in their eyes.
 * June 13: Templates gone lunatic.
 * June 16: The King did a dangerous experiment involving chains and ExE.
 * June 18: FB100Z introduced ultracardlnals, an evolved form of a Sam-type definition which can (supposedly) rule over the entire Pantheon of Large Cardinals ever known to humanity.
 * Aarex did something fairly legitimate.
 * Aarex did something fairly legitimate.

The Namer's Takeover (Jun 2014 ~ Aug 2014)

 * June 30: What.
 * It appears that he is the one who gave a namesake for this wiki and his name may or may not be a pun of "and rejoice".
 * July 5: The Fish (actually another character in that webcomic) reduced googology into a single scale.
 * We are not responsible for possible randomness.
 * July 16 ~ 18: Time is on our side. (formerly here)
 * July 19: The IRC channel was founded.
 * July 21: Wow.
 * July 23: This day marks the beginning of cartography, starting from Googology Worldwide.

Post-Rejoice Era (Aug 2014 ~ Present)

 * August 5: Wyth strikes again! A 22-part machine, one less part than the champion, entered the BG club. As a celebration, Wyth created a lot of polls so we can have fun with it.
 * August 31? (Officially September 9): Saibian released a new DLC for Hyper-E. It includes two new groups regiments after ginorgol, and it provides more musical instruments (actually smaller and larger gongs). It also turns vehicles into taxis, and larger members (starting from E100####3) are given new outfits.
 * September 4: [ Lord Helix reached level 100.]
 * September 4: [ Lord Helix reached level 100.]

Cascade
(The name above is referencing a certain moment in a certain webcomic, about a lot of things happening in these 2~3 days. It is not related to a certain symbol in ExE.)
 * September 13~14: Due to budget cuts (as believed by some), the patrons decided to just make all of the prefixes with the same effect at the same house, starting from Prefix 10^27. According to the patrons, this makes less-known prefixes live with the better-known ones, so they could be more well-known and more efficient.
 * September 14: Rebranding x2 COMBO!!!: Googol is now officially redefined as "1 vel" after FB100Z Industries found that its name was disliked by their "deomgraphics"; and the Fonster Dude publicly disclosed that he's obsessed with cookies and some of them caused him to find this very planetary system.
 * September 14 (again?!?!): A cult advocating that googology is dead because there is a largest number has sprung up. Shortly after, an opposing cult has sprung up with a similar reasoning, and they began to fight with each other.
 * In short, \(Sx \neq x\) is independent of \(Q\).
 * September 15: Worms appear on the planet, and they had a fight with (one of the weaker) hydras. It was a tie.
 * September 15: Video Galaxy property now available!
 * September 15 (wow): After FB100Z (now known as Vel!)'s suggestion about reviving the legendary bread-baking match which gave rise to the Breadloader monstrosity, Deedlit made it happen... sort of. With appetizers instead of breads.
 * The entries mostly comprised of progressively smaller appetizers.

Post-Cascade

 * September 19 ~ Present: Suddenly forum user blog games everywhere, starting from this one.
 * October 7: hey it's "sam"
 * October 19: Jonathan Bowers Fonster told us to deal with it.
 * In response, Vel used the somewhat horrifying "velvelvel" technique.
 * October 19: Timelines!
 * October 21: The Penguin began a research about feet and the "oodles" which consists them.
 * October 30: The research about feet turns out that it's related to googology as hell! As the result of this research, a foot so B-I-G like one plus the reciprocal of a googol  that it actually beat Rayo's number itself! May BIG FOOT remain in everybody's memories and nightmares.
 * "So, uhhh, I guess I just made the biggest number in the[sic] existence."
 * December 5: The sixth birthday!
 * December 9: Six years in the making... Saibian should make it stop.
 * December 23(?): Saibian's power level is officially over 9000.
 * January 3, 2015: The wise words by Bowers himself, by a forum thread on another galaxy, have been revealed to the planet.
 * December 9: Six years in the making... Saibian should make it stop.
 * December 23(?): Saibian's power level is officially over 9000.
 * January 3, 2015: The wise words by Bowers himself, by a forum thread on another galaxy, have been revealed to the planet.

TODO

 * Cs Doctor's introduction and his notation
 * FGH vs. SGH: How could we fit them together?
 * The catching chain-reaction
 * The (allegedly) overpowered computable fan-made notations/functions
 * An actual name for the era after the Cleanup Era
 * Taranovsky
 * New machines
 * Over Graham's number
 * BB(7)
 * Other bounds (epsilon-0? ID<omega?)
 * Machines which don't care about bounds
 * Bounds on SCG or something
 * HAAAAAAAAAAANDS
 * vel
 * vel