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(C) - Conceived. Concept/idea presented, published, discussed.
(T) - Terminology proposed/defined. Naming things helps talk about them (so says @timoreilly, Brooklyn Beta, 2013[1])
(E) - Event. In-person notable/significant meeting/event that furthered the Indie Web.
(I) - Implemented. Implementation shipped and deployed live and working on a personal indie web site.
(L) - Launched. Site, service, or software launched.
(S) - Specified. Specification written down and publicly published on the web.

For significant IndieWeb / silo / social media / federated / decentralized web companies, products, and services, see and add to:

history

1997

1997-03-09 (T)(S): Channel Definition Format (CDF) defined & specified in Microsoft submission to W3C by Thomas Reardon
1997-03-09 (C): RSS concepts nearly all defined in CDF spec

1998

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1999

1999-03 (T)(S): RDF Site Summary (RSS) named in RSS 0.9 specification by Netscape

2000

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2001

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2002

2002-06-26 (T)(I): Trackback first implemented in Movable Type v2.2 [2] [3]
2002-07-07 (C): Pingback concept described as "automatic trackback" by Stuart Langridge[4]
- first automatic way to let someone know that you linked to their site.
2002-08 (S): Trackback specification released by Six Apart [5]
2002-09-02 (T): Pingback term introduced by Stuart Langridge[6]
2002-09-02 (I): Pingback first implemented by Simon Willison ([7] (UK timestamp?)
- Additional source: Tantek conversation with Simon in Brighton, UK 2013-09-07
2002-09-02 (I): Pingback second implementation by Stuart Langridge[8] (US/CA timestamp?)
2002-09-04 (S): Pingback first specified by Stuart Langridge[9]
2002-09-06 (S): RSS 3.0 spec published by Aaron Swartz [10]
2002-09-23 (S): Pingback 1.0 spec published by Ian Hickson[11][12][13]

2003

2003-03 (C): XFN conceived by Tantek Çelik at SXSW with proposal of rel=friend
2003-03 (E): SXSW Interactive: Tantek Çelik & Matthew Mullenweg meet, work on XFN
2003-05-27 (L): WordPress open source project launched[14]
2003-06-29 (C): Atom - concepts described for why Atom (then working name "Echo") was needed and shortly thereafter RSS Atom Wars began
2003-12-15 (S): XFN 1.0 specified by Tantek Çelik[15], Eric Meyer[16], and Matt Mullenweg[17]

2004

2004-02-11 (T): microformats term introduced by Tantek Çelik & Kevin Marks, San Diego, CA
2004-08-16 (S): XFN 1.1 specified by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg[18]

2005

2005-06-20 (L): microformats.org launched

2006

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2007

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2008

2008-02 (E): Social Graph FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA[19].photos.
2008-10-03 (C): rel=in-reply-to use in HTML as a rel microformat (re-use from RFC4685) proposed by Sarven Capadisli to 'indicate that the current hEntry is a reply to another hEntry and has a reference point @href' [20]

2009

2009-01-08 (E): First Activity Streams Meetup[21]
2009-01-14 (I): First implementation to publish rel=in-reply-to in StatusNet[22]
2009-04 (E): Social Web FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA[23][24]

2010

2010-02-01 (C): RelMeAuth concept described by Tantek[25]
2010-02-01 (T): RelMeAuth term proposed by Jeff Lindsay moments later[26]
2010-02-01 (C): RelMeAuth user flow, fallback algorithms by Tantek[27]
2010-02-03 (C): backfeed concept as "reverse syndication" by Tantek[28]
2010-05-26 (C): POSSE concept described by Tantek[29]
2010-06-06 (T): indie web term & concept as distinct from large companies used in private email interview response by Tantek to journalist Craig Grannell of .net magazine (Practical Web Design in the US)
2010-07-18 (E): Federated Social Web Summit (FSWS2010) in Portland, Oregon
2010-07-18 (C): IndieWeb concept as build/selfdogfood/ownyourdata refocus conceived by Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik in person in Portland, Oregon, the evening after FSWS2010
2010-10-06 (C): POSSE architecture drawn by Tantek at Mozilla, Mountain View[30] including backfeed functionality, then referred to as "reverse syndicate".
2010-10-08 (E): Open Web FooCamp at O'Reilly Campus, Sebastopol, CA, attended by Tantek where upon arriving he blogged What is the Open Web? before the opening session.
2010-12-31 (T): IndieWebCamp as an event name & date proposed by Tantek to Aaron on IM.(AIM logs/archives), and shortly thereafter reached out to Amber Case & Crystal Beasley to start organizing the event together.

2011

2011-??-?? (T): IndieWebCamp logo designed and created by Crystal Beasley
2011-05-24…25 (E): W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser[31][32] at Mozilla, attended by Tantek[33][34]
2011-06-25 (E): First IndieWebCamp organized by founders Aaron Parecki, Amber Case, Crystal Beasley, Tantek Çelik in Portland, Oregon, thus kicking off the IndieWebCamp movement.

2012

2012-03-28 (I): IndieAuth implemented by Aaron Parecki[35]
2012-06-10 (T): backfeed term proposed by Barnaby Walters[36]
2012-06-20 (E): microformats.org 7th Anniversary Celebration at Mozilla, San Francisco.
2012-06-20 (T): POSSE term proposed by Tantek Çelik & Will Norris at that event[37]
2012-06-22 (T): PESOS term proposed by Tantek[38]
2012-06-30 (E): IndieWebCamp 2012 in Portland, Oregon
2012-09-09 (E): First IndieWebCampUK in Brighton, England
2012-10-26 (E): Federated Social Web Summit San Francisco

2013

2013-04-19 (I): First indieweb post with federated comments by Laurent Eschenauer[39]
2013-04-19 (I): First cross-site indieweb reply post via Pingback by Aaron Parecki[40]
2013-06-22 (E): IndieWebCamp 2013 in Portland, Oregon
2013-06-23 (C): comment propagation concept and mechanism proposed by Sandeep Shetty
2013-06-25 (I): First indieweb event post with RSVP support by Ben Werdmuller using idno
2013-06-25 (I): First cross-site indieweb RSVP post by Bret Comnes
2013-06-25 (I): Second cross-site indieweb RSVP post by Aaron Parecki using p3k
2013-07-01 (T): PESETAS term proposed by Tantek[41][42]
2013-08-07 (E): W3C Workshop on Social Standards in San Francisco, CA, USA
2013-09-07 (E): IndieWebCampUK 2013 in Brighton, England
2013-12-01 (L): Bridgy launched - first backfeed as a service that watches for activity (e.g. likes, reposts, comments) on content POSSEd to silos (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, G+) and sends webmentions back to the original post. by Ryan Barrett.

2014

2014-03-07 (E): First IndieWebCamp San Francisco held at Embassy Network, organized by Amber Case, Ben Werdmüller, Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks
2014-04-20 (T): salmon-like upstream comment flow phrase introduced by Ashton McAllan to more precisely express comment-propagation
2014-04-26 (E): First IndieWebCamp NYC held at The New York Times, organized by Jeremy Zilar, Tantek Çelik, Brian J Brennan
2014-06-28 (E): IndieWebCamp 2014 simultaneously in Portland, NYC, Berlin.
2014-09-06 (E): Third IndieWebCampUK in Brighton, England
2014-09-28 (C)(T): "vouch" param, flow, term extension to webmention proposed by Tantek Çelik in IRC[43]
2014-10-11 (E): First IndieWebCamp Cambridge held at MIT, organized by Amber Case, Sandro Hawke, Tantek Çelik, Aaron Parecki
2014-10-12 (S): Vouch spec drafted by Tantek Çelik on IWC wiki after whiteboarding flow at IWC Cambridge
2014-10-17 (I): Vouch personal site implementations deployed by Aaron Parecki & Ben Roberts
2014-11-29 (I): Webmention deployed by Pingback inventor Stuart Langridge on personal site.[44]

2015

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2015-03-19 (E): Second IndieWebCamp Cambridge organized by Ben Roberts, Sandro Hawke, Tantek Çelik, David Shanske
2015-05-09 (E): First IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf organized by Marc Thiele, Jeremy Keith, Aaron Parecki
2015-06-09 (T): salmentions term introduced by Ashton McAllan to refer to salmon-like upstream comment flow.
2015-06-09 (I): First salmentions implementation by Kyle Mahan
2015-07-11 (E): IndieWebCamp 2015 simultaneously in Brighton & Portland
2015-07-12 (I): First SWAT0 implementation across 3 sites & implementations by Ben Roberts, Aaron Parecki, Kevin Marks, Kyle Mahan[45][46].
2015-07-25 (E): First IndieWebCamp Edinburgh organized by Amy Guy, Harry Reeder, James Baster
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needs cleanup

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Note: Below is a draft of unorganized data with rough dates. Needs cleanup. Source: @caseorganic conversation with @t, IndieWebCamp UK 2013-09-08

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2003:

Rise of Pingback Spam

Decline of Personal Sites

Distracted by RSS/ATOM wars, blogs began to decline
Hosted blogs, people turned to social networks more than blogging
Eventual fade of RSS/ATOM

2010: State of Blogs

Not much personal blog activity
WordPress heavy and dominant

2013:

Github hosted blogs, Medium for frontpage Hacker News

Siloed blogging and writing frameworks.

MEDIUM: Don’t claim ownership but reserve the right to use your content even if they get acquired in the future.
Wikia: Communities don’t own their content and can’t transfer it off their site.

Differences between 2013 and 2003

Short status updates became an acceptable form of content
Easy enough to show an entire conversation or a link to another page

2011 (E): IndieWebCamp Conf

Purpose: Show, don’t tell
Builders Only. Must have your own domain name and actively build stuff for it to attend.
Use your domain name and OpenID to sign into the IndieWebCamp MediaWiki. http://indiewebcamp.com/
Could only add self to the attendee list if you use your domain name to log into the site.

2012:

IndieAuth implemented on IndieWebCamp.com (replaced OpenID)
2012-06 (E): IndieWebCamp2012: changed from Builders-only to Creators-only to more explicitly include UX+design
- Again, could only add self to the attendee list if you use your domain name to log into the site.
Domain Name, rel=me, mediawiki
2012-09 (E): IndieWebCampUK 2012 (first in the UK)

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Need Dates for the following, creators and the first example of each:

Webmention.io and pingback.me before that

Indie Comments

Indieweb post capable of receiving webmention based comments

Indieweb comment published and original notified via webmention