TI Community Timeline
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1967 — First handheld electronic calculator invented at TI
1972 — TI-2500 introduced, the first commercial calculator
1976 — Little Professor introduced, the first educational toy
1977 — TI-58 and TI-59 introduced, the first programmable calculators that have plug-in modules containing pre-written programs in math, statistics, finance, etc.
1978 — Students at Ohio State University use programmable calculators
1982 — TI-30 SLR introduced, the first solar-powered calculator allowing math and science students to eliminate the expense of batteries
1987 — TI-12 Math Explorer introduced, the first TI product designed with the help of teachers, which begins the practice of involving educators in product development
1990 — TI-81 Released
- July — TI-81 released by Texas Instruments
1991
- Fall — First issue of The TI-81 Graphing Calculator Newsletter released by Nils Ahbel, Terry Walsh, Linda Antinone, and John Mahoney
1992 — TI-85 Released
- April — Graph-TI mailing list and newsgroup started by Professor Bert Waits of Ohio State University in support of educators
- July — TI-85 released by Texas Instruments
- Summer — The Computers and Calculators in Precalculus (C2PC) project founded in Summer 1988 by Professors Bert Waits and Franklin Demana of Ohio State University renamed Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3)
- Fall — The TI-81 Graphing Calculator Newsletter renamed Eightysomething! by Dave Slomer when he became an editor with the release of the TI-85
1993 — TI-82 Released
- July — TI-82 released by Texas Instruments
1994
- January 31 — Math and science data collection tool, Calculator-Based Laboratory (CBL), released by Texas Instruments
- January — CompuTech Software founded by (cousins) Brian Hill and David Smith
- April — Calc-TI mailing list started by Texas Instruments to support the programming hobbyist with more technical information and discussions
- July 15 — Unofficial TI-FAQ started by by Shawn Jordan for the Graph-TI and Calc-TI newsgroups
- Summer — TI Graphing Calculator Magazine (TIGCM) started by Brian Hill and David Smith
- Fall — First TI graphing calculator websites start appearing on the Internet on college networks
- September 1 — Hacking the TI-85 Calculator (85HACK.TXT) released by David Boozer, detailing how to dump the ROM and program assembly
- December — Drugwars released by Jonathan Maier for the TI-82 in TI-Basic
- November — First assembly shell for TI-85, ZShell, released by Dan Eble
1995 — TI-80 & TI-92 Released
- January — TI-82/85 Link Protocol Guide (LINKPROT.TXT) released by Per Finander
- February — TI-80 released by Texas Instruments
- April 6 — First graphing calculator with Motorola 68000 processor and QWERTY keyboard, TI-92, released by Texas Instruments
- June — Unofficial TI-Calculator Home Page founded by Chris Dornfield
- August 14 — Official ZShell FAQ started by Henrik Edlund
- November 30 — Philadelphia Graphing Calculator Committee (PGCC) founded by Steve Kraisler
- November 21 — ZShell v4.0 released by Magnus Hagander and Rob Taylor
- December 15 — ACME Software founded by Warren Thiptus
- December 27 — TI-85 Assembler Programming tutorial (asmteach.zip) started by Greg Parker
- Sometime — Connect-85 linking software and hardware released by Magus Hagander
- Sometime — TI-Graph Link software and cable released by Texas Instruments for use with the TI-82 and TI-85
1996 — TI-83 Released; Native Assembly Introduced
- January — TI-92 Link Interface Protocol released by Ben Eater and George Nachman
- February 2 — Collaborative web site (i.e., ticalc.org) suggested by Isaac Salpeter to maintainers of the Unofficial TI-Calculator Home Page, The Official ZShell Home Page, Connect-85 and Unofficial ZShell pages, and TI Net Sites
- March 29 — TI-92 Technical Information (TI-92_tech.txt) released by David Ellsworth
- April — Programmer's guide to the TI-85 RAM (TI-RAM.TXT) released by Dan Eble and Rob Taylor
- May 30 — TI Protocol Information (TI-PROT.TXT) released by Pascal Bouron
- Spring — The primary IRC channel for TI calculator discussion, #calc-ti on EFnet server, founded by "perki" and "Intel"
- June 21 — Ticalc.org unveiled to the public
- July — List-ZShell and TI-Emulator mailing lists started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- August 1 — The TI Calculator Center started by David Ordal
- August 14 — ZShell School started by Jimmy Mardell to teach TI-85 assembly programming
- August — First graphing calculator with native assembly support, TI-83, released by Texas Instruments
- Summer — Kevtiva Interactive founded by Kevin Mallory
- October — TI-Hardware mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- November 10 — First assembly shell for TI-92, Fargo, released by David Ellsworth
- November 21 — First Internet terminal for TI-92, FTerm, released by David Ellsworth
- November 24 — 68k Assembly Guide for Fargo programmers started by Jimmy Mardell
- November — Assembly-92 mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
1997 — TI-86 Released
- January — Ticalc.org goes offline due to Isaac Salpeter's college (Florida State University) deciding to no longer host the site
- January 6 — First graphing calculator with built-in assembly commands, TI-86, released by Texas Instruments
- January 6 — Math and science data collection tool, Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR), released by Texas Instruments
- January 9 — First assembly game for TI-83, Turbo Breakout, released by Bill Nagel
- February 13 — Mel Tsai released Expander Serial-Flash (ESF), a battery-powered, small external device that allows you to hold vast amounts of data, accessible anywhere
- March 2 — Bryan Rabeler joins ticalc.org after running The Fargo Archive
- March 24 — TI Calculator Webring created to connect TI community sites
- March — TI-Files founded by Alex Highsmith and Harper Maddox
- April 4 — Fryed Software webpage started by Ed Fry
- April 20 — Ticalc.org is back online after purchasing new hosting and moving to a new server
- May 1 — TI-83 Z80 Assembly founded by Chaveiro
- May 6 — Calc-TI FAQ compiled by Mattias Lindqvist from Calc-TI mailing-list and Unofficial TI-FAQ by Shawn Jordan
- May 7 — First assembly game for TI-86, Turbo Breakout 2, released by Bill Nagel
- May 19 — Icarus Productions founded by Andreas Ess and Sam Davies
- May 27 — Cidragon Software founded by Matt Renfrow and Eddie Gallagher
- May — TI-8x Webring started by Ben Skigen and Brandon Turok
- Spring — Stuffy Doll Productions founded by Colin Butler
- June 1 — First assembly shooting game for TI-83, Spaze Invaders, released by Hannes Edfeldt
- June 8 — First assembly shell for TI-82, OShell-82 (OS-82), released by Jason Todd
- June 9 — Shell-Developers mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- June 15 — Compression assembly programs for TI-83, Squish and Zasmload, released by Pat Milheron of Texas Instruments
- June 15 — Filenews-Binaries mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- June 18 — First assembly shell and GUI for TI-83, Aurora, released by Bill Nagel
- June 25 — Assembly-82 mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- June 25 — First ticalc.org overhaul completed, with the site getting a new design and a new features section with support for user-submitted columns, articles, and program reviews
- June 27 — First assembly scrolling platformer, Penguins, released by Bill Nagel for the TI-83
- June 24 — Second assembly shell for TI-82, Ash, released by Mattias Lindqvist & Dines Justesen
- July 17 — First assembly shell for TI-86, AShell, released by Bill Nagel
- July 22 — Second assembly shell for TI-86, Iridus, released by Alan Bailey
- July 25 — Assembly-83 and Assembly-86 mailing lists started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- July 25 — Chris Dornfeld of ticalc.org writes first article for features section on ticalc.org, detailing why ticalc.org was created
- Summer — Shermco Industries founded by Sherman Cahal
- August 7 — TI-Basic mailing list started by Magnus Hagander at ticalc.org
- September 5 — Dimension-TI founded by Adam Berlinsky-Schine
- September 6 — #ticalc becomes the primary IRC channel for TI calculator discussion
- September 7 — TI Headquarters (TI-HQ) founded by Dan Englender
- September 14 — Assembly shell for TI-86, Usgard, released by Andreas Ess, Sam Davies, Jimmy Mardell, Austin Butler, and Mel Tsai
- September 18 — TI-8X Haven founded by Shaun McCormick
- September 30 — Terry Peng writes first programming column for the features section on ticalc.org, detailing how to make programs for Usgard
- September — TI Graphing Calculator FAQ (TI-FAQ) started by Ray Kremer
- September — Destination Software founded by Kodi Mosley
- October 4 — ticalc.org archive passes 2,000 files
- October 19 — First major assembly RPG, Dying Eyes, released by Alex Highsmith for the TI-82
- December 20 — Next assembly shell for TI-83, AShell83, released by Bill Nagel
- December — Third assembly shell for TI-82, CrASH, released by Hideaki Omuro and Jeff Mears
- Sometime — Macross Software founded by Mikel Blanchard
1998 — TI-73, TI-89 & TI-92+ Released; Flash Memory and Computer Algebra System (CAS) Introduced
- January 17 — ticalc.org archive passes 3,000 files
- February 10 — Next major assembly RPG, Joltima, released by Justin Karneges for the TI-83
- February — The Guide released by Jimi Malcolm
- February — TI-86 Central founded by Matt Johnson
- February — First issue of TI-Files newsletter, The Files Monthly, released with TI community news, letter to the editor, game of the month award, top ten list, and an interview
- March 2 — Fargo Files founded by Mikkel Skovgaard
- March 13 — First graphing calculator with built-in computer algebra system (CAS) and Flash memory, TI-89, released by Texas Instruments
- March 13 — First graphing calculator for middle school with Flash memory, TI-73, released by Texas Instruments
- March — MXM Projects founded by Norbert Schönach and Alexander Grutschs
- April 1 — Hays Games Company founded by Mike Smith, Mike Delsi, Derrek Stevens, Hulk Kuhn, Ron States, and Chuck Taylors
- April 12 — ticalc.org archive passes 4,000 files
- April 25 — ASM Guru released by James Matthews to teach TI-83 assembly programming
- Spring — Calculator Central Intelligence Agency (CCIA) founded by Elliot Olney
- May — New Programmers Order (NPO) founded as a cover for Hays Games Company
- July 7 — ticalc.org archive passes 5,000 files
- July 9 — Plexus Publishing founded by Ken Ritzert
- July — Upgrade to TI-92 with support for Flash memory, TI-92+, released by Texas Instruments
- July — Z80 Assembly Coders (Z80AC) founded by Will Dempster and Tim Buckingham
- Summer — SiCoDe Software founded by (brothers) David Hall and Matt Hall
- August 2 — First assembly scrolling platformer for TI-86, Super Mario 86, released by Bill Nagel
- August 11 — First assembly shell and program for TI-89, PlusShell, released by Rusty Wagner
- August 18 — First news media attention on the TI community, as ticalc.org is mentioned in the technology section of the San Francisco Chronicle
- August 30 — ticalc.org announces their upcoming newsletter
- September 5 — First issue of Dimension-TI newsletter, Dimension-TI Monthly, released
- September 13 — First issue of ticalc.org newsletter released, and includes TI community news, ticalc.org news, an interview, and Program of the Week (POTW) award
- September 14 — TI World community site founded by Nicholas Young-Soares
- September 14 — First ticalc.org newsletter released
- September 20 — Telnet 83 released by Justin Karneges to allow connecting of the TI-83 to the Internet
- September 21 — Emulator for Chip8 and SChip8 programs for TI-85, uChip8, released by Andeas Ess
- September 23 — TI Calculator Programming Alliance (TCPA) founded by Patrick Wilson(?) and Laine Walker-Avina(?)
- September 25 — Techno-Plaza founded by John David Ratliff
- September — Ellis Industries founded as a cover for Hays Games Company
- Fall — Radical Software founded by Michael Vincent
- October 1 — Program of the Month (POTM) award started by ticalc.org
- October 9 — TI-Files purchases their own domain name (http://www.ti-files.org)
- November 6 — Gravitics Team founded by Pascal Martin
- November 10 — Bryan Rabeler of ticalc.org issues a public apology on ticalc.org for his involvement in the TI-Files "hacking" incident
- November — Assembly Coders Zenith (ACZ) founded by Dux Gregis, Clement Vasseur, Brett Barwick, David Phillips, and Dave Scheltema
- December 8 — Void Productions founded by Derrick Ward and Sam Heald
- December 20 — Twilight-TI (T3) founded by Jason Gauer
- December 21 — First game released by the TCPA, Yoshi v1.0 for TI-83, written by Brandon Sterner
- December 24 — Virtual TI (VTI) graphing calculator emulator released by Rusty Wagner
- December 25 — Abacus Software, Inc. (ASI) founded by Chris Rojewski
- December 28 — Dimension-TI and TCPA agree to a merge, with TCPA the first site hosted by Dimension-TI
- December 29 — TI-BASIC Programming Alliance (TBPA) founded by Big MAC
- December —- Mogsoft, Inc. founded by Thomas Peeples
- December — Z80 Assembly Programmers Organization (ZAPO) founded by Chris Phelps and Tim Adkinson
- Sometime — BASIC Guru released by Ben Ilegbodu
1999 — TI-83+ Released
- January 11 — Successor to TI-83 with more memory and Flash technology, TI-83+, released by Texas Instruments
- January 22 — Dimension-TI acquired two domain names for its website (http://www.dimension-ti.org and http://www.calc.org)
- January — TI-Galaxy founded by James O'Neal
- January — Blankware Programming (BASM) founded by Trevor Blank and Adam Brooke
- January — Tangy Interactive founded by Philip Ringsmuth and Alan Taylor
- January — BASIC Coders Zenith (BCZ) founded by Chris Flanigan
- February 4 — Millennium Advanced Programming (MAP) founded by Adam Ziemba
- February 7 — First four sites hosted at ticalc.org, which includes Link Cables, Sami Khawam, Stuntworks, and Turbosoft
- March 18 — SiCoDe Software IRC channel opens at #sicode
- April 22 — Texas Instruments introduces TI InterActive!, an integrated learning computer software program for math and science
- May 24 — Longview Programming Group (LPG) founded by Aaron Lanclos and Jacob Maples
- May — Programmers Anonymous (PA) founded by Grant Elliott
- July 16 — First C compiler for TI-68k calculators, TIGCC, released by Jean Canazzi, Sebastian Reichelt, Xavier Vassor, and Zeljko Juric
- Spring — Damol Software founded by Dam Zeugma
- August 6 — Texas Instruments acquired Soft Warehouse, Inc., the maker of the DERIVE Computer Algebra System (CAS) built-in to the TI-89 and TI-92+
- August 15 — Elcobbola's TI Pages started by Dave Cobb
- August 24 — First TI-83 and TI-83+ compatible shell, Ion, released by Joe Wingbermuehle
- August 26 — Deep Brain Activity (DBA) founded by Frédéric Jouault and Antoine Jalabert
- August — Texas Instruments bought rights to modify and distribute ASM Guru by James Matthews
- August — TI-Basic Quality Alliance (TBQA) founded by David Hall of SiCoDe Software
- September 8 — TI-News founded by Tim Buckingham
- September 26 — eXatomic Programming founded by Reman Child
- September — ZX Spectrum emulator for TI-89, Tezxas, released by Samir Ribic
- October 21 — Upgrade to Calculator-Based Laboratory, CBL 2, released by Texas Instruments
- October 29 — TI-83+ Flash SDK released by Texas Instruments
- October — Basic and Assembly Programmers Group (BAPG) founded by Chris Dietz
- November 2 — First third-party Flash application, CalcSys, released for TI-83+ by Dan Englender of the TCPA
- November 2 — Reviewer of the Month (ROTM) award started by ticalc.org, with Sam Heald winning the first award for writing over 80 reviews
- November 24 — HillVisions founded by Aaron Hill
- November 25 — Basmic Campaign started by SiCoDe Software to get recognition for TI-Basic programmers
- November 28 — Ti-Fr (fr) founded by François Goldgewicht
- December 4 — Puzzle Pack Flash application released for TI-83+ by Jason Kovacs and the TCPA
- December 5 — Parasoft Productions founded by Andrew Matta
- December 6 — Otaku Programming Association (OPA) started by Chris Rojewski
- December 12 — Source Guru released by Patrick Davidson
- December 29 — SowbySoft Technologies founded by Rob Sowby
2000
- January 1 — Millennium Awards jointly hosted by ticalc.org, Dimension-TI, and Ti-Fr
- January 2 — Lipid Inc. founded as a cover for Hays Games Company
- February 27 — Julien Muchembled wrote a patch for HW2 TI-68k calculators running AMS v2.03 removing the 8KB limit on assembly programs
- February — Ion Guru released by Matt Hernandez of BASM
- February — TI-Chess Team founded by Thomas Nussbaumer
- March 4 — Ticalc.org has more than 10,000 files in its archives
- March 20 — Basmic Campaign discontinued by SiCoDe Software
- March — Cemetech founded by Christopher Mitchell
- March — InterCalc founded by Joshua Vanderburg
- April 20 — Dave Jaklitsch retires from TI-Files, leaving Matthew Christenberry as the sole senior editor
- April 28 — ti89.org founded by Donovan Smith
- April — Smallville Productions founded by Mark Olson
- May 1 — Detached Solutions founded by ex-TCPA members Dan Englender, Jason Kovacs, Andrew Magness, Scott Dial, and Brandon Sterner
- May 9 — Devpac8x released by Scott Dial
- May 21 — CalcWire founded by Casey Woo
- May 28 — TI-CAS founded by Olivier Miclo, Jonah Cohen, and Clement Vasseur
- May — First parody TI programming group, PsychoCorp, started by David Hall of SiCoDe Software
- Spring — Advanced Basic Technologies (ABT) founded by Thomas Mulford
- June — Jason Gauer of Twilight-TI decides to resurrect TI Graphing Calculator Magazine (TI-GCM)
- June 12 — Detached Solutions holds a "Test of Knowledge" contest about their group and software, with prize being an orange Detached Solutions slidecase
- July 14 — Detached Solutions IRC channel opens at #detacheds
- Jul 19 — Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator released by Nick Disabato for TI-86 in TI-Basic
- July 25 — MirageOS released for TI-83+ by Jason Kovacs and Dan Englender of Detached Solutions
- July — Jason Donley of TI-Galaxy purchases the ti-files.org domain name from Matthew Christenberry for $750, and the TI-Files staff subsequently retires
- July — Linux Programmer Group (LPG) founded by Romain Liévin
- August 3 — BASIC Guru Online founded by Ben Ilegbodu using his BASIC Guru tutorials
- August 26 — Gérald Gamain (Wormhole) was killed in a car crash
- August 28 — Phoenix, an advanced shoot-em-up, released by Patrick Davidson for the TI-85
- August — Basicoderz Software founded by Tim Parkin with friend Jeff Ruud
- September 6 — Texas Instruments has now shipped more than 20 million graphing calculators
- October — Radical Software and InterCalc merge
- October — Jam Calculators (JamCalc) founded by Adam Lange
- Fall — TI French Team (TIFT) founded by Julien Le Guen
- December 1 — Detached Solutions and Texas Instruments cooperatively hold a TI-83+ Application Programming Contest
- December 9 — The TI-Files server is no longer hosted, bringing an end to TI-Files
- December 22 — yAronet founded by Jaroslaw Kuczynski
- December 22 — TI-89/TI-92+ Flash SDK released by Texas Instruments
- December — CalcWare founded by Mike J
- Sometime — Time To Team (T3) founded by Patrick Pelissier
2001 — TI-83+SE Released
- February 6 — Ticalc.org has more than 15,000 files in its archives
- February 7 — Wireless classroom system that facilitates student learning and interaction in the classroom, TI-Navigator, released by Texas Instruments
- February 10 — Dimension-TI renamed to "calc.org" with accompanying site URL, and other calculators are supported besides the TI series
- February 20 — Flameblade Programming founded by Chris Coykendall
- February 25 — 3D ray-casting engine for TI-68k calculators, FAT-Engine, released by Thomas Nussbaumer of TI-Chess Team
- March 10 — Lightyear Studios founded by Chris Nicolson
- March — Ticalc.org and Texas Instruments started a cooperative project to produce a ticalc.org CD to be packaged with the TI graphing calculator interactivity kits
- April — Fred Coughlin appeared on ABC's hit gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and won $16,000
- May 23 — TI-68k emulator, GtkTiEmu, released by Romain Lievin and Thomas Corvazier
- Spring — TI World programming group founded by Joe Flint
- June 5 — MaxCoderz Software founded by Steve Riekeberg and Martin Johansson
- June 6 — First Java compiler for TI-68k calculators, Waba Virtual Machine (WVM), released by Stephan Effelsberg
- June 19 — TI-83+SE released by Texas Instruments
- June — Hays Corporation founded as a cover for Hays Games Company
- July — Cirrus Programming founded by David Lindstrom
- Summer — Texas Instruments starts an annual Application Development Contest for the TI-83+ and TI-89, with several TI community programmers entering and winning
- Summer — Texas Instruments commissioned several programmers from the TI community to create TI-83+ Flash applications in order to enhance the amount of software titles available to the public
- September 1 — Omnimaga founded by Kevin Ouellet
- December 14 — Symbolic released by Brandon Sterner of Detached Solutions
- December 18 — Get Connected (Getcon) founded by Merlijn den Boer
- December — TI Connect software application released by Texas Instruments
2002 — Voyage 200 PLT Released
- January 13 — TI-89/TI-92+ SDK released by Texas Instruments
- January 21 — Basic Editor started by Edwin Louwerse
- January — Voyage 200 Personal Learning Tool (PLT) released by Texas Instruments
- March 6 — CalcGames founded by Barrett Anderson and Konstantin Beliakov
- March 22 — The Calc Site founded by Alam Hamlett
- March 31 — Adam Berlinsky-Schine retires from Dimension-TI (calc.org) and Nate Buda becomes his successor
- April 2 — Dojo Productions founded by Tristan Dahl
- April 11 — Omnicalc released by Michael Vincent
- April — MidKnight Software founded by Kodi Mosley and Luis Lebolo as a resurrection of Destination Software
- May 5 — Patrick Davidson passes one million downloads at ticalc.org
- June 20 — Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly in 28 Days released by Sean McLaughlin
- July 9 — TI-Freakware founded by Daniel Thorneycroft
- August 15 — Texas Instruments celebrates the 35th anniversary of its invention of the electronic handheld calculator
- October 6 — Les83plus founded by Sébastien Laoût
- November — Prokul Interactive founded by Glen Lee
2003
- January 2 — CalcNews started by Eric Harmon
- January 14 — Greenfire Software founded by Vincent Jünemann and Benjamin Ryves
- March 7 — Z80 Assembly tutorial released by Patai Gergely
- March 15 — Fortress Productions founded by Adam Ziemba
- March 17 — Outdone TI founded by Jeremy Steinert
- April 12 — Cecil Green, a founder of Texas Instruments, died at age 102
- April 12 — TI-Files (de) founded by Thorsten Kempas
- April — Graph-TI and Calc-TI mailing lists are ended by Texas Instruments
- May 19 — CalcCapture released by André Felix Miertschink
- May 20 — United-TI (UTI) founded with merger of four TI sites: Cirrus Programming, CalcBasic, Outer Limit Software, and Prokul Interactive
- Spring — Drubu Productions founded by Mike Gage
- Spring — Nexus Programming founded by Brian Jost
- November 15 — Jimmy Mårdell won the Google Code Jam programming contest
- Fall — Calc Haven founded by Jc(?) and Andy(?)
- Fall — Dysfunction Programming founded by George Daole-Wellman
- December 10 — First third-party OS for 68k calculators, PedroM, released by Patrick Pelissier
2004 — TI-84+/SE & TI-89 Ti Released
- January — Basicbuilder TI-Basic program packager released by Martin Warmer
- January — Ti-Gen founded by Geoffrey Anneheim and Frédéric Bour
- May — Epic Programming Studios founded by George Daole-Wellman and Jake Finley
- May — Prgmerz founded by Larry Bucio
- Spring — Orage Studio founded by Vincent Corfdif
- August 24 — Calc WebZine founded by Vincent Jünemann
- September 1 — TechniCalc founded by Andrew Cacovean, Bhuvanesh Bhatt, Ray Kremer, and Doug Burkett
- October 12 — Suicidal Psycho Software (SPS) founded by Patrick Stone
- October — Revolution Software founded by Jonathan Janevski and Travis Supalla
- October — Penguin Studios founded by Bryce Taylor
- November — Electroshock founded by koolmansam375
- December 9 — xLIB assembly library released by Patrick Prendergast
- December — Steven King leads revival attempt to revamp calc.org
2005
- March 15 — First assembly shell for TI-73, Mallard, released by Michael Vincent
- March 27 — WikiTI founded by Jason Malinowski
- March — Z80 Revelation founded by John Lloyd-Kirk
- March — Crescent Door Incorporated (CDI) founded by Fred Sparks
- May 11 — Stickfigure Graphic Productions (SFGP) founded by Thomas Dickerson
- May 16 — MLC for TI-86 released
- May 17 — The BASIC Elite founded by Jonathan Pezzino and Christopher Mitchell
- May — TI-Programmers Union founded by Alex Bardos
- August 16 — usb8x released by Dan Englender
- October 18 — Rivereye Studios founded by Theodore Davis
- October 29 — Emu8x released by Michael Vincent of the Detached Solutions
- November 6 — Online TI-Basic viewer, SourceCoder, released by Christopher Mitchell
- November 25 — Goose Commons founded by Kenneth Hammond
- December 12 — The Coders of Tomorrow founded as part of Omnimaga
- December 24 — MLC for Casio calculators released
2006
- January — Ben Trettel leads revival attempt to revamp calc.org
- February 3 — Flash application and OS signer for TI-83/84+, RabbitSign, released by Benjamin Moody
- February 8 — xLIB Guru started by Brian Benson
- April 9 — Hikaru Rakuen Programming (HRP) founded by Loki Kun
- June 3 — PindurTI released by Patai Gergely
- July 17 — Online TI File Converter, TI.Zewaren.net, released by Erwan Martin
- July — TestGuard released by Texas Instruments to prevent cheating in the classroom
- September 1 — TI-Basic Developer (TI|BD) founded by Steve Hartmann using his same-name programming guide
- September 12 — msd8x released by Brandon Wilson and Michael Vincent
- October 8 — BlueCrimson founded with merger of Fryed Software and Nomad Software
2007 — TI-Nspire / CAS Released
- January — Outside The Box Programming (OTBP) founded by Brendan Fletcher
- February 2 — WabbitEmu announced by Revolution Software
- June — UnSyntax Software founded by Keith Johansen
- August — TI-Wereld founded by HOI and Buys
- Sometime — CalcGames renamed to Calcg.org
2008
- March 4 — Omnimaga shuts down as result of increasing disputes with other community members. Only the IRC channel remains.
- May 29 — Novasoft founded by Jonah Scheinerman
- July 1 — Latenite Z80 IDE released by Benjamin Ryves
- August 25 — Omnimaga re-opens as a forum due to high demand.
- September 3 — TI Wizard founded by Andrew Munsell
- December — BBC BASIC for TI-83/84+ released by Benjamin Ryves of Maxcoderz
2009
- January 3 — Fork of TIGCC development environment for 68k calculators, GCC4TI, released by Lionel Debroux because of disputes with TIGCC maintainer
- July 15 — Texas Instruments closed calculator discussion groups on its site
- July 19 — Virtual TI (VTI) emulator by Rusty Wagner passes one million downloads at ticalc.org
- July 24 — Brandon Wilson released Free83P tools to enable loading of custom operating systems on the TI-83+/84+ calculators
- July 30 — Benjamin Moody posted the cracked TI-83+ OS signing key on United-TI
- August 22 — TI-81 custom interrupt routine created by Randy Compton to enable execution of user-entered machine code on the TI-81
- Summer — 13 512-bit RSA public keys used for validation of OS and FlashApps in TI-Z80 and TI-68k applications are factored
- September 13 — Flash application and OS signer for TI-89/92/V200, resign68k, released by Brandon Wilson
2010 — TI-Nspire with Touchpad / CAS Released
- February 2 — Axe Parser language released for the TI-83 Plus series
- February 27 — Ndless released by Olivier Armand and Geoffrey Anneheim to allow for third-party C and assembly development on the TI-Nspire
- April 19 — ClrHome founded by Deep Thought
- June 2 — First assembly program loader for TI-81, Unity, released by Benjamin Moody
- July 27 — TI-Nspire assembly tool to downgrade the OS, Nleash, released by Olivier Armand
- October 1 — First on-calculator assembly IDE for TI-83+/84+, Mimas, released by Benjamin Moody
2011 — TI-Nspire CX / CAS Released
- October 13 — First TI-80 emulator, ti80emu, released by Randy Compton
2012
- January 24 — Javascript TI-83+ emulator, jsTIfied, released by Christopher Mitchell
- February 1 — TI-Story founded by Steve Hartmann to document the TI community history
- April 21 — United-TI (UTI) merges into Cemetech to preserve the forum contents for posterity
2013 — TI-84+CSE Released
2014
- October 24 — CodeWalrus founded by aeTIos, DJ Omnimaga, Juju, pimathbrainiac and Streetwalrus. Site remains private until January 1st 2015.
2015 — TI-84+CE and TI-83 Premium CE released
2016
2017 — Nothing interesting in calculator related news happens after this point
2018 — Technological singularity ends human civilization as we know it. Possible caused by a buffer overflow in a Texas Instruments graphing calculator.
2019 —A blank and lifeless void awaits the heat death of the universe.
2020 — Happy Raven M'nuuten Snuuten Day @Bippleyipsnip
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