Sato's Timeline

Sato's Timeline is a Timeline generally accepted by the 2b2t community. It includes an "Age" followed by a shorter "Period." Here it is in written form:

Age of Unrest
The Age of Unrest was a period of time between Beta 1.2 and Beta 1.8 where 2b2t had between 50-80 rising players. The main sources of players were ads run on 4chan which sparked the 4channers or the collected Facepunchers.

2010

 * 2b2t Begins (December)

2011

 * Player Data Corruption (May)
 * THEJudgeHolden posts the first page of the 2b2t comic (July)
 * 2b2t Gets Backdoored (December 2011/January 2012)

The Great Server Decay
2012 marked the beginning of the Great Server Decay period. It was a period of time where the general player base fell due to lag spikes, Facepunchers/4channers leaving, and the IP change from .net to .org.

2012

 * 1mil base is Griefed (February)
 * End of the [Facepunch] Republic Project (February)
 * Imperator's Base is Founded (April)
 * 2k2k becomes the last home for Facepunchers (June)

2013

 * Hitlerwood is founded (February)

Age of Resurgence
The Age of Resurgence was a rebound in the 2b2t Playerbase and activity in general. It is commonly, but not always, associated with the founding of Valkyria due to its importance and prominence in this time period.

2013

 * Valkyria is founded (April)
 * 1.5.0 (or 1.4.7) Dupe (May)
 * 1st Spawn Incursion (June)
 * 2nd Spawn Incursion begins (August)
 * NFE is finally destroyed (October)
 * 2nd Spawn Incursion ends (October)
 * Shenandoah is founded (October/November)
 * 2nd Backdoor (December)

2014

 * 2k2k Buried in a lavacast (May)
 * Legion of Shenandoah is founded (June)
 * Gape I is founded (June)
 * Fenrir is founded (June)
 * Nova is founded (October)
 * Southern Canal is founded (December)

2015

 * 2b2t Updates to 1.8 (January)
 * Fenrir is finished (February)
 * Asgard II is founded (March)
 * 3rd Incursion Begins (April)
 * Vortex Coalition is founded (May)
 * Aureus City is founded (May)
 * King's Landing is founded (June)
 * Last Facepunch Thread is Closed (June)

Pre-Hype Period
This period marked the beginning of Project Vault and saw a mass decay in the player base towards the end due to the 3rd Backdoor crisis.

2015

 * Project Vault begins (August)
 * Motherboard Article released (October)
 * Imperator's Base destroyed (December)

2016

 * RPS Article released (February)
 * Olympus destroyed (March)
 * Bed TP exploit (March)
 * OP'd account is stolen and used to abuse the server (March/April)
 * The Lands destroyed (April)
 * Space Valkyria destroyed (April)
 * KGB is destroyed (April)

Age of Hype
The Age of Hype marked the period where the 2b2t player base saw never before seen attention after Rusher started his series on it.

2016

 * TheCampingRusher starts his series on 2b2t (June)
 * 4th Incursion begins (June)
 * Prio/Vet Queue (July)
 * Hardware Upgrade (July)
 * Lag Machines used and abused (August)
 * End of 4th Incursion (October/November)
 * Drop Dupe (November)
 * Fifth Incursion Begins/Ends (November)
 * Emperium Founded (December)

2017

 * Map Crisis (February)
 * SpawnMasons Founded (February)
 * World Border Reached (March)
 * Highland Founded (April)
 * Point Dory Griefed (May)
 * Society Founded (June)
 * Museum Opens (July)
 * 1.12 Dupe Patched (July)
 * Summermelon Griefed (July)
 * ElRichMC arrives on server (September)
 * Elytras disabled (September)
 * PreJune Queue removed (October)
 * Astral order founded (December)

2018

 * U.G.E Founded (January)
 * Temp Map (March)
 * AntVenom Invasion/6th Incursion start (April)
 * Boedecken and Equilbrium griefed (May)
 * Month of Destruction (31days31griefs) (May)
 * Block Game Mecca griefed
 * Donkey Dupe (August)
 * FuzeIII begins a 2b2t series (September)
 * 7th Incursion fiasco (September-Late 2018)
 * Book Ban discovered (October)
 * Chunk dupe found (November)

Automation Period
This period is controversial in the 2b2t community and has a monotone version of 1.12.2 throughout, It is usually defined by the introduction of baritone that has allowed large structures to be built around the server

2019

 * YouTube algorithm promotes the server (March)
 * Godmode exploit is discovered (April)
 * Etika Streams (May)
 * Purge Concludes (June)
 * Infinity Incursion founded (August)
 * 8th Incursion begins/ends (August)
 * Entity Speed patched (September)
 * NoServerNovember (November, duh)
 * 100k Mapping project released to the public (November)
 * Largest Spawn structure constructed by Baritone (December)
 * Elysium griefed (December)
 * Death of Donkey Dupe (December)

2020

 * Monastery is griefed (February)
 * Authentication/Session ID Hacked (February)