| Dec 1996 |
Martin Webb begins work on the JavaScript No Content Site, and publishes the 1st article: Calendars. |
| Nov 1997 |
Core team member Jason Nugent appears as a guest author on: Addressing Form Field Validation with Regular Expressions and JavaScript 1.2. |
| Jan 1998 |
Martin Webb's article on Creating a JavaScript site map, get's published on developer.com, which leads much more attention to the JavaScript No Content Site. |
| Mar 1998 |
The 1st non-JavaScript related articles appear, as core team member Tarique Sani appears as a guest author on: Java Applets #1, and core team member Janus Boye appears as a guest author on: XML - What's in it for us?. |
| Apr 1998 |
Number of subscribers to the monthly newsletter goes above 1000 |
| May 1998 |
The JavaScript No Content Site moved to the bigger, better and brighter irt.org site, following a complete relaunch of all content. |
| Jun 1998 |
Number of weekly visitors increases to above 6000, with 1200+ subscribers to the monthly newsletter, and 40+ beta testers. |
| Jul 1998 |
Work starts on localizing irt.org to French, Portuguese and Danish. |
| Sep 1998 |
The site turns commercial, as it receives it's first sponsorship, which is an $100 banner deal, with .25 cent pr. click-through. |
| Oct 1998 |
The 1st Core Team meeting is held in London, where 5 Core Team members show up to talk about the future direction of the site |
| Nov 1998 |
irt.org goes off air as we break our bandwidth limit on November 24, 1998 - we had broken our site traffic of 500Mb per month. We were around the 4Gb mark for the month! New bandwidth limit: 250Mb/day
The long awaited links database went live! Feel free to suggest new categories |
| Dec 1999 |
200,000 accesses per week. Monthly newsletter at the 2000 mark |
| Feb 1999 |
The 2nd Core Team meeting is held in London
New resource added: Which User Agent is winning the Browser War? |
| Apr 1999 |
The JavaScript Knowledge Base goes live, where users can enter keywords an receive a listing of all the JavaScript FAQ questions that match the query.
Two copies of Settlers 3 - the game - came up for grabs for the games challange - Minesweeper |
| May 1999 |
The 3rd Core Team meeting is held in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Jul 1999 |
The 4th Core Team meeting is held in London |
