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2004- 2010 - The Pre-Google Incident era

2005

• May 27, 2005: Earliest known archival of:
  • Anvil Nominations [1]
  • Check for Orphans [2]
• November 8, 2005: Earliest known archival of General Suggestions [3]
• November 10, 2005: Earliest known archive of Entry Name Changer [4]
• November 11, 2005: Earliest known archive of The Contributors [5]

2006

• January 6, 2006: Earliest known archival of:
  • Pitch Generator
  • Program Entry Template [6]
  • Story Generator [7]
• February 6, 2006: Earliest known archival of:
  • Contributor Announcements [8]
  • Index-Index [9]
  • Reference Swapper [10]
  • Tropes Needing Examples [11]
  • Wiki Sandbox [12]
• April 24, 2006: Earliest known archival of Fan Speak [13]
• May 2, 2006: Earliest known archival of Characters and Casting [14]
• May 3, 2006: Earliest known archival of:
  • Ho Yay [15]
  • Shout-Out [16]
• May 4, 2006: Earliest known archival of BlaB! LITE chat room [17]
• May 26, 2006: Earliest known archival of You Know That Thing Where [18] (now known as Trope Launch Pad)
• June 1, 2006: Earliest known archival of https:://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/changes.php [19]
• June 15, 2006: Earliest known archival of Trope Talk (as a directory page) [20]

2007

• January 6, 2007: Earliest known archival of Wiki Tech Wish List [21]
• January 7, 2007: Earliest known archival of Ask The Tropers [22]
• January 8, 2007: Earliest known archival of current You Know That Thing Where (TLP) system [23]
• February 25, 2007: Earliest known archival of Fridge Logic [24]
• May 2, 2007: Earliest known archival of Avatar and the Airbending Fellowship of Vampire Slayers [25] (and evidence its namespace is used)
• May 3, 2007: Earliest known archival of Getting Crap Past the Radar [26]
• May 4, 2007: Earliest known archival of Nightmare Fuel [27]
• May 27, 2007: Last known archival of BlaB! LITE chat room [28]
• June 14, 2007: Time Immemorial Index begins
• June 19, 2007: Earliest known archival of Awesome Music [29]
• June 22, 2007: Just for Fun is created (earliest known archive)
• June 26, 2007: Wild Mass Guessing is created (earliest known archive)
• June 29, 2007: Earliest known archival of Made of Win [30]
• July 1, 2007: Earliest known archival of Trope Overdosed [31]
• July 12, 2007: Earliest known archival of Quote Bin [32]
• October 27, 2007: Earliest known archival of It Just Bugs Me! [33]
• December 17, 2007: Earliest known archival of Trope Co. [34]
• December 24, 2007: Earliest known archival of Trope Entry Template [35]
• December 26, 2007: Earliest known archival of Category Listing Template [36]

2008

• January 13, 2008: Useful Notes On Europe is created alongside Useful Notes
• January 17, 2008: Earliest known archival of Useful Notes Earliest known archive
• January 21, 2008: Subjective Tropes is created (originally used as a YMMV index) (earliest known archive)
• February 8, 2008: Earliest known archival of Moment of Awesome [37]
• February 9, 2008: Earliest known archival of Fetish Fuel [38]
• February 18, 2008: Earliest known archival of Trope Pantheons, as a single page [39]
• February 26, 2008: Tear Jerker is created (earliest known archive)
• March 2, 2008: Earliest known archive of Trope Pantheons having its own namespace [40]
• March 4, 2008: Earliest known archive of Fan Fic Recommendations [41]
• April 5, 2008: Earliest known archive of Heartwarming Moments, and HeartwarmingMoment namespace [42]
• April 9, 2008: Earliest known archive of Your Mileage May Vary [43]
• April 30, 2008: Fridge Brilliance is created
• May 13, 2008: Earliest known archive of Character Sheets [44]
• May 26, 2008: Trope Co. page is created (earliest known archive)
• July 18, 2008: DarthWiki.This Exists is created (earliest known archive)
• July 30, 2008: Earliest known archive of Funny Moments [45]
• August 18, 2008: Troper Tales page is created (earliest known archive)
• August 30, 2008: Earliest known archival of Trope Title Generator [46]
• September 6, 2008: Earliest known use of Useful Notes namespace [47]
• September 25, 2008: Earliest known archival of SoYouWantTo.See The Index [48]
• November 18, 2008: SugarWiki.Sweet Exists is created (earliest known archive)
• December 20, 2008: Earliest known archival of Exquisite Corpse [49]

2009

• January 12, 2009: Laconic Wiki page is created (earliest known archive)
• January 16, 2009: Earliest known archival of High Octane Nightmare Fuel [50]
• January 31, 2009: Quotes Wiki page is created (earliest known archive)
• February 24, 2009: Image Links Wiki page is created (earliest known archive)
• April 3, 2009: Earliest known archival of Troper Works index and namespace [51]
• June 23, 2009: Earliest known archival of TV Tropes The TV Show [52]
• August 4, 2009: Fridge Horror is created
• August 12, 2009: Earliest known archival of Trivia index [53]
• October 6, 2009: Haiku-Wiki page is created (earliest known archive)
• October 21, 2009: Playing With Wiki page is created (earliest known archive)

2010

• February 14, 2010: Earliest known archival of Namespace [54]
  • Media Namespaces include Anime, ComicBook, FanFic, Film, Game, Literature, Manga, Music, Series, TabletopGames, Theatre, and Webcomic
  • Companion Namespaces include Quotes Wiki, Trivia, Image Links Wiki, Troper Tales, Laconic Wiki, Haiku-Wiki, Playing With Wiki, Character Sheets, Fan Fic Recommendations, Wild Mass Guessing, It Just Bugs Me!, and Crowning Moment Of Awesome
  • Just For Fun and Other Namespaces include DarthWiki, SugarWiki, TVTropesTheTVShow, AvatarAndTheAirbendingFellowshipOfVampireSlayers, Pantheons/TropePantheons, TropeCo, SoYouWantTo, ExquisiteCorpse, Useful Notes, Troper Works, Contributors (The Contributors)
• March 22, 2010: Earliest known archival of TV Tropes The TV Show forum [55]
• August 18, 2010: Machinima, Roleplay, Theatre, and WebOriginal are added to Namespace. Soon after, WesternAnimation is as well. [56]
• August 20, 2010: TroperWorks removed from Namespace. [57]
• October 9, 2010: Earliest known archival of YMMV [58]

2010- 2012 - The Google Incident and its aftermath

2011

• January 30, 2011 or earlier: Administrivia namespace in use (What Goes Where on the Wiki)
• April 23, 2011: Game is replaced with VideoGame on Namespace
• July 12, 2011: Earliest known archival of Memetic Mutation [59]
• May 4, 2011:
  • Magazine added to Namespace
  • JustBugsMe replaced with Headscratchers on Namespace
• May 12, 2011: Edit to Namespace clarifies which exactly are being used:
  • Mainly for tropes: Haiku, ImageLinks, Laconic, PlayingWith, Quotes, Trivia, and TroperTales
  • For works: Analysis, Characters, FanFicRecs, Headscratchers, Recap, WildMassGuessing, and YMMV
  • Just for Fun: AATAFOVS, Corpse, Pantheon, TropeCo, UsefulNotes, Tropers
• August 16, 2011: Namespace states that Troper Tales are no longer hosted
• August 24, 2011: VisualNovel added to Namespace
• August 28, 2011: RealLife added to Namespace
• September 4, 2011: Synopsis added to Namespace, "since we're encouraging people to use it"
• September 5, 2011: Radio added to Namespace
• October 13, 2011 or earlier: Debut of Timeline namespace [60]
• October 27, 2011: Fridge added to Namespace
• November 2, 2011: ComicStrip added to Namespace after discussion [61]
• November 3, 2011: Bollywood added to Namespace after discussion [62]
• November 11, 2011: Awesome, Funny, Heartwarming, HighOctaneNightmareFuel, NightmareFuel, TearJerker added to Namespace (variants still here beforehand)

2012- 2014 - The Second Google Incident and aftermath

2012

• January 12, 2012: LightNovel and SelfDemonstrating added to Namespace
• February 21, 2012: Wiki added to Namespace
• March 8, 2012: Manhua and Manhwa added to Namespace
• March 9, 2012: Advertising added to Namespace
• March 16, 2012: Creator added to Namespace
• March 22, 2012: Wrestling added to Namespace
• April 9, 2012:
  • Crowner called: WebOriginal deprecated for Blog, LetsPlay, Podcast, WebAnimation, Website, and WebVideo namespaces
  • Franchise and FanWorks added to Namespace
• April 14, 2012: Animation added to Namespace
• April 18, 2012: JustForFun added to Namespace
• October 27, 2012 or earlier: Debut and move of many namespaces.[63]
• "Long" before Dec 12th 2012: Deprecation of HarryPotter, TheDarkTower, and similar namespaces

2013

• January 1, 2013 or similar: Approval of AudioPlay namespace [64]
• January 21, 2013: Approval of Timeline namespace [65] (discussion)
• June 8, 2013 or earlier: TropeWall namespace is in use
• June 27, 2013: Toys added to Namespace
• July 3, 2013: AlternateRealityGame, Ride, and WebOriginal added to Namespace
• July 6, 2013: Pinball added to Namespace [66]
• July 9th, 2013 or earlier: ARG preferred over AlternateRealityGame [67]
• July 14th, 2013: Referenced by... page and namespace created.
• September 2, 2013: GameMod added to Namespace
• September 11, 2013: GameMod removed from Namespace after being declared unofficial

2014

• January 11, 2014: Recap and Synopsis merged [68]
• March 18, 2014: LARP namespace officialized [69]
• October 17, 2014: Art added to Namespace [70]

2014-2019: New Ownership

2015

• January 29, 2015: Myth added to Namespace [71]
• March 24, 2015: Script added to Namespace [72]
• April 23, 2015: MadmanEntertainment added to Namespace [73]

2017

• July 1, 2017: Corpse (Exquisite Corpse) removed form Namespace [74]

2020+: The COVID-19 Days and Current State

2020

• January 4, 2020: Franchises or series no longer get namespaces for works [75]

2022

• ????: Let's Play deprecated.
• August 31, 2022 or earlier: Machinima removed from Namespace [76]

2023

• March 7, 2023: LARP removed from Namespace, having been deprecated [77]