delightful-fediverse-apps/Federated-Social-Web-Timeline.md

Existing sources:

• articles on the Chronicles/ Knowledge pages of the site
• WeDistribute
• Strypey's 'brief history' blog piece: http://web.archive.org/web/20190617225539/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2017/04/01/a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation

Timeline could include referenced dates for:

Identica/ pump.io/ GNU social

Founding of Laconica/ Identica project

Publication of OpenMicroBlogging spec

Rebranding at StatusNet/ OStatus

Publication of OStatus spec

Publication of pump.io spec

Identi.ca switched to pump.io

Forking of Free & Social

Founding of GNU social

Merger of StatusNet, and Free & Social, into GNU social

Diaspora

Founding of Diaspora project

Crowdfunding success on Kickstarter

First Diaspora pod

Publication of Diaspora spec

Friendica/ Hubzilla/ Zap

Founding of Mistpark project

Publication of DFRN spec

Rebrand to Friendika

Rebrand to Friendica

Launch of RedMatrix project