Creepypasta Wiki:Creepypasta Timeline

The history of creepypasta-related events and media.

1998

 * August 3rd - Polybius is archived on Coinop.org

2000

 * February 27th - Usenet group rec.games.video.arcade.collecting makes inquires the validity of Polybius

2001

 * March 23rd - Ted the Caver story begins on an Angelfire page
 * May 19th - Ted the Caver stops updating their page
 * April 11th - User Al Kossow claims the Polybius story was invented by Usernet user CyberYogi

2004

 * July 27th - SA User Smorky uploads modified versions of Nancy and Archie comics with the first mentions of the word "Zalgo"

2005

 * 2005 - Johnnie Baima's tap-dancing clip from "The Goddess Bunny" is uploaded to eBaumsworld.com and eventually becomes Obedece a la morsa/Obey the walrus
 * January 5th - Ted from Ted the Caver appears on the National Speleological Society message board and pronounces his story is ficticious
 * late-2005 - Earliest posts about the Rake are made on 4chan's /b/ board for the post "hey /b/ lets make a new monster"

2007

 * January 1st - "The Holder of the End" is archived on 4chan's /b/ board
 * mid-2007 - Smile.jpg makes its early debut

2008

 * March 28th - THEN WHO WAS PHONE found on 4chan's /x/ board
 * April 18th - User erwilzei uploads "Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv" to Youtube (The creepypasta is added to alternate versions of the video in the following days)
 * April 20th - Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv is revealed to be a work of fiction
 * late-2008 - Smile.jpg gains popularity
 * October 3rd - User Sesseur uploads "Jeff the killer" to YouTube
 * October 14th - User killerjeff uploads the infamous Jeff the Killer image to Newgrounds
 * October 14th - User JustAnotherJengaBlock uploads Go To Sleep Creepypasta to 4chan's /x/ board

2009

 * 2009 - "Russian Sleep Experiment" makes its internet debut
 * March 15th - "Candle Cove" is submitted to the Ichior Falls horror fiction website
 * June 10th - SA User Victor Surge submits Slenderman pictures on Something Awful forums for a Photoshop contest
 * June 11th - SA User Victor Surge updates the Slenderman story
 * June 12th - SA User LeechCode5 adds an image and a back story to the Slenderman mythos
 * June 14th - SA User TrenchMaul uses the Slenderman character for his own story
 * June 20th - Joseph DeLage and Troy Wagner begin the Marble Hornets Project
 * August 10th - User the_solipist submits information and images about the Grifter to 4chan's /x/ board
 * August 21st - User the_solipist admits that the Grifter is ficition
 * August 22nd - SA User Smorky provides the back story to the origin of "Zalgo" on Something Awful forums

2011

 * 2011 - BOB story discovered on the /x/ board on 4chan
 * July 26th - Minecraft creator Notch adds Endermen in an online update to the game

Sources:

 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bobbrutal-obscene-beast
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/candle-cove
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jeff-the-killer
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mereana-mordegard-glesgorv
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obedece-a-la-morsa-obey-the-walrus
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polybius
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/russian-sleep-experiment
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smilejpg
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ted-the-caver
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-grifter
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-holders
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-rake
 * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo