It is hard to say, because there was a thing called Tibia Emulator in Tibia 6.x series. But the real OpenTibia project (that one: SourceForge.net Repository - [opentibia] Index of /) was founded by Tliff (tliffrag), Shivoc, Spin (mips_act) and Sim0ne (otserv_simone).
2001
* February
- Shi'Voc heard about Snyder's tibia 6.0 emulator and thought about making his own with Acrimon thus the birth of OTserv.
- Packet sniffing and decoding was done by Protos
- Tliff made a program to extract the graphics from tibia client.
[edit]
2002
* June
- OTServ has its own mini forum on WoT. Blast from the past
[edit]
2003
* Before November
- Many OTServ staff lose interest in the project and go on leave.
- K-Zodron joins otserv. Everybody cares.
- Thax joins otserv too, but nobody cares. Thax doesn't care about it.
* November
- OTServ v2.7 is added to SourceForge.
- OTServ v2.7a is added to SourceForge.
- Tliff posts that he will no longer be active and that he wishes someone would take his place for the time being.
[edit]
2004
* April
- Haktivex joins OTServ staff as lead programmer.
- Sharki joins as the official OTserv mapper.
* June
- Haktivex experiments with packets, and created the very first spells.
* September
- Very first edition of the battle system was created, very buggy, but it ran.
- Sharki asks for a helper, Exorid is then picked as the 2nd official OTserv mapper.
* November
- Fandoras shows Tibia Dark Age (or just TDA) to the public, his own version of OTServ created in C#. This went on to be the core of the new OTServ, recoded in C++. This server had a much more stable battle system, as well as spells.
- OTServ 0.3.0 that had the battle system featured was rated as the most popular otserv download and most awaited to be released.
- Sharki leaves OTserv making Exorid new lead mapper.
- Fandoras shows off his open source map editor for OTServ.
- Tliff and Shivoc come back and start working on OTserv. Haktivex steps down as lead programmer.
- First OTServ List was made by DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf. Blast from the past
- Tibia Deathmatch origins from TDA which was released to the public by Rey; it was once famous because of similarity's to Reebow's project name (Deathmatch) - Later removed from Tibianews, WoT.
- Official OpenTibia test server is opened and run by Tliff
- Exorid stops work on Official map since it wasnt being used by the test server.
- Nuker joins OTServ.
* December
- CIP emails WoT asking them to get rid of the OpenTibia Board on thier forums. WoT seem to accept this.
- A community is formed, OTCommunity is the name. Leaded by Foziw and Jorris, it rapidly grows up, mainly due to the OT'ers of WoT that came out from there, accepting OTCommunity as the new "official" community (at current moment).
- Tibia Deathmatch is banned from all official OTServ and TDA communities.
- jakexblaster joins OTServ with both a MapEditor (based on Fandoras' works) and a simplist map format
[edit]
2005
* January
- DeathfireD leaves OTServ because of server list complications.
* February
- Zuttlan & some other key people leave OTcommunity and go into retirement.
- DeathfireD and Exorid form Tibia Dark Age now known as The Dark Age asked Fandoras and Haktivex to join. Both leave OTserv staff because of minor/major issues (some involving there positions in the OTserv staff) and joined TDA.
- jakexblaster with Fandoras' help implements the first steps of the multileveling on OTserv: the project now gets "3D".
* March
- jakexblaster leaves the community temporally, due to college season.
- Official OpenTibia test server had some problems and was shutdown.
- OTFans is created by Yorick, Nuker and Verkon. Is virtually unheard of at the time. The biggest community at the present time, OTcommunity, had some kind of "generalized crisis".
* April
- OTFans starts to grow, Pekay finds OTFans.
* May
- jakexblaster comes back to the OpenTibia server community, releasing the fifth version of his MapEditor.
* June
- OTFans grows massively, making it one of the biggest communities in OTserv.
* July
- OTCommunity falls down and merges with Tibiafans causing them to lose a big piece of their members which in turn joined the OTFans community.
- XTibia.com is created by Gustavo. XTibia is the biggest Brazilian community at the present time and the most stable Otserv's website
* October
- Alpha version of Open Tibia Client by fike released.
- Development of The Outcast, an alternative 3D client, begins by Khaos.
* November
- The current official OTserv developers (Simone, Spin and Primer) launchs the OpenTibia Binary Map (OTBM) based on the OTB idea, also made by the current team. Maps get its size reduced.
- Arkold Thos launch Otserv Development Awards 2005 but get closed some days later.
[edit]
2006
* January
- Arkold Thos and wrzasq launch OTServ Development Awards 2006.
- DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf bring back an updated version of the first OTserv list made back in 2004. OTserv List Revived
* February
- OTFans is critised for it's act and some new ideas.
- Pekay is fired from Administrator of OTFans for a staff comment and not caring. After two days talk with Pekay and Yorick get Pekay back in his position as administrator, but Pekay demands better deals in improving OTFans.
* March
- Enforced rules, now all binarys servers need to release sources (GPL).
* April
- April fools joke played on Otfans.net
- OTserv thread is re-opened on WoT.
* May
- Tibia shows off their updated client with encryption, DirectX5/9 and OpenGL support also some minor helpfull things built into the GUI.
- Official OTserv developers along with TDA members and a few other great programmers, brainstorm on how to decrypt new client in order to keep Otserv true to its name (open tibia server) currently they understand how it works and have a few proof of concept ideas.
- OTserv's new CVS has the decryption function for the tibia client added in but is still being tested.
- OTfans had a meeting that went over SQL and alot of other little things related to the site and the development of OTserv.
- May 14th jakexblaster leaves OTserv and posts his goodbye (see Here)
- OTserv Wikipedia article for deletion. [http://otfans.net/showthread.php?p=364685
- OTserv News Started OTserv News.
- May 29th OTserv Wikipedia deleted.
* June
- Minor updates of Tibia Client.
- OtFans Staff Metting.
* July
- DeathfireD re-opends OTserv 7.1 list due to some servers not showing up on OTservlist.org, this list is only for old Open Tibia Servers 7.1 and under.
- July 22th Vitor, Anstice and BlackDemon started a new CVS project written from scratch. The New OTServ is an OTServ made to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The project was formerly known as The New OTServ (TNO).
* September
- Official opening of the OTserv Central Database.
- Otserv Package for Debian in http://mentors.debian.net by Arkold Thos.
* October
- Linux forums openned in Otfans.net.
- Public release of Otserv Package for Debian in Otfans.net by Arkold Thos
- Otserv Development Awards 2006 (ODA06), the project of Arkold Thos and wrzasq voting phase started.
* November
- OTserv Central Database closes due to Tliffs server crashing.
- November 11th Revbattlesys merge to Main Branch.
- OTvote opened for OTfans OTvote.otfans.net.
* December
- December 27th Khaos begins rewriting The Outcast.
[edit]
2007
* January
- OTServ Development Awards 2006 winners announced by wrzasq at otfans.net.
- OTServ Development Awards 2007 starting announced by Arkold Thos in late January due to organization problems.
* February
- First version of The Forgotten Server is released by Talaturen.
* April
- OTFans 2 years anniversary.
- New OTFans Downloads Database added.
- Nikolas released the first AAC for The Forgotten Server distro.
- Avarian released AF-AAC, the first AAC/CMS for The Forgotten Server distro.
* May
- OTServ News 1 year anniversary.
- Talaturen founds ****** community.
* June
- June 15th jakexblaster is back.
* August
- XTibia, the official community of OpenTibia in Brazil commemorates two years.
- revdbsys branch started to remove XML database support, this is managed by wrzasq.
* September
- revnetsys re-started by spin and Sim0ne.
* October
- revnetsys is merged to the repository by spin.
- OTFans reorganize their forum structure and usergroups.
- revdbsys is merged to the repository by spin.
* December
- Remere releases his map editor.
- YATC v0.1 is released.
- otserv81 is merged to the repository by spin.
[edit]
2008
* January
- Otservhispano, the official Spanish-talking site got closed due to organization problems
- eOtfans opened by Arkold Thos and becomes the official Spanish-talking site.
- bitLib is implemented into the project
- sha1 is implemented as a hash for accounts
* February
- Data folder is done for release of 0.6.0 OTServ
* April
- OTFans gets a new fresh design and updates to vBulletin 3.7
* May
- OTvote gets a face lift and some major upgrades.
That was interesting to read (y) Thanks.From OTFans wiki:
Code:2001 * February - Shi'Voc heard about Snyder's tibia 6.0 emulator and thought about making his own with Acrimon thus the birth of OTserv. - Packet sniffing and decoding was done by Protos - Tliff made a program to extract the graphics from tibia client. [edit] 2002 * June - OTServ has its own mini forum on WoT. Blast from the past [edit] 2003 * Before November - Many OTServ staff lose interest in the project and go on leave. - K-Zodron joins otserv. Everybody cares. - Thax joins otserv too, but nobody cares. Thax doesn't care about it. * November - OTServ v2.7 is added to SourceForge. - OTServ v2.7a is added to SourceForge. - Tliff posts that he will no longer be active and that he wishes someone would take his place for the time being. [edit] 2004 * April - Haktivex joins OTServ staff as lead programmer. - Sharki joins as the official OTserv mapper. * June - Haktivex experiments with packets, and created the very first spells. * September - Very first edition of the battle system was created, very buggy, but it ran. - Sharki asks for a helper, Exorid is then picked as the 2nd official OTserv mapper. * November - Fandoras shows Tibia Dark Age (or just TDA) to the public, his own version of OTServ created in C#. This went on to be the core of the new OTServ, recoded in C++. This server had a much more stable battle system, as well as spells. - OTServ 0.3.0 that had the battle system featured was rated as the most popular otserv download and most awaited to be released. - Sharki leaves OTserv making Exorid new lead mapper. - Fandoras shows off his open source map editor for OTServ. - Tliff and Shivoc come back and start working on OTserv. Haktivex steps down as lead programmer. - First OTServ List was made by DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf. Blast from the past - Tibia Deathmatch origins from TDA which was released to the public by Rey; it was once famous because of similarity's to Reebow's project name (Deathmatch) - Later removed from Tibianews, WoT. - Official OpenTibia test server is opened and run by Tliff - Exorid stops work on Official map since it wasnt being used by the test server. - Nuker joins OTServ. * December - CIP emails WoT asking them to get rid of the OpenTibia Board on thier forums. WoT seem to accept this. - A community is formed, OTCommunity is the name. Leaded by Foziw and Jorris, it rapidly grows up, mainly due to the OT'ers of WoT that came out from there, accepting OTCommunity as the new "official" community (at current moment). - Tibia Deathmatch is banned from all official OTServ and TDA communities. - jakexblaster joins OTServ with both a MapEditor (based on Fandoras' works) and a simplist map format [edit] 2005 * January - DeathfireD leaves OTServ because of server list complications. * February - Zuttlan & some other key people leave OTcommunity and go into retirement. - DeathfireD and Exorid form Tibia Dark Age now known as The Dark Age asked Fandoras and Haktivex to join. Both leave OTserv staff because of minor/major issues (some involving there positions in the OTserv staff) and joined TDA. - jakexblaster with Fandoras' help implements the first steps of the multileveling on OTserv: the project now gets "3D". * March - jakexblaster leaves the community temporally, due to college season. - Official OpenTibia test server had some problems and was shutdown. - OTFans is created by Yorick, Nuker and Verkon. Is virtually unheard of at the time. The biggest community at the present time, OTcommunity, had some kind of "generalized crisis". * April - OTFans starts to grow, Pekay finds OTFans. * May - jakexblaster comes back to the OpenTibia server community, releasing the fifth version of his MapEditor. * June - OTFans grows massively, making it one of the biggest communities in OTserv. * July - OTCommunity falls down and merges with Tibiafans causing them to lose a big piece of their members which in turn joined the OTFans community. - XTibia.com is created by Gustavo. XTibia is the biggest Brazilian community at the present time and the most stable Otserv's website * October - Alpha version of Open Tibia Client by fike released. - Development of The Outcast, an alternative 3D client, begins by Khaos. * November - The current official OTserv developers (Simone, Spin and Primer) launchs the OpenTibia Binary Map (OTBM) based on the OTB idea, also made by the current team. Maps get its size reduced. - Arkold Thos launch Otserv Development Awards 2005 but get closed some days later. [edit] 2006 * January - Arkold Thos and wrzasq launch OTServ Development Awards 2006. - DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf bring back an updated version of the first OTserv list made back in 2004. OTserv List Revived * February - OTFans is critised for it's act and some new ideas. - Pekay is fired from Administrator of OTFans for a staff comment and not caring. After two days talk with Pekay and Yorick get Pekay back in his position as administrator, but Pekay demands better deals in improving OTFans. * March - Enforced rules, now all binarys servers need to release sources (GPL). * April - April fools joke played on Otfans.net - OTserv thread is re-opened on WoT. * May - Tibia shows off their updated client with encryption, DirectX5/9 and OpenGL support also some minor helpfull things built into the GUI. - Official OTserv developers along with TDA members and a few other great programmers, brainstorm on how to decrypt new client in order to keep Otserv true to its name (open tibia server) currently they understand how it works and have a few proof of concept ideas. - OTserv's new CVS has the decryption function for the tibia client added in but is still being tested. - OTfans had a meeting that went over SQL and alot of other little things related to the site and the development of OTserv. - May 14th jakexblaster leaves OTserv and posts his goodbye (see Here) - OTserv Wikipedia article for deletion. [http://otfans.net/showthread.php?p=364685 - OTserv News Started OTserv News. - May 29th OTserv Wikipedia deleted. * June - Minor updates of Tibia Client. - OtFans Staff Metting. * July - DeathfireD re-opends OTserv 7.1 list due to some servers not showing up on OTservlist.org, this list is only for old Open Tibia Servers 7.1 and under. - July 22th Vitor, Anstice and BlackDemon started a new CVS project written from scratch. The New OTServ is an OTServ made to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The project was formerly known as The New OTServ (TNO). * September - Official opening of the OTserv Central Database. - Otserv Package for Debian in http://mentors.debian.net by Arkold Thos. * October - Linux forums openned in Otfans.net. - Public release of Otserv Package for Debian in Otfans.net by Arkold Thos - Otserv Development Awards 2006 (ODA06), the project of Arkold Thos and wrzasq voting phase started. * November - OTserv Central Database closes due to Tliffs server crashing. - November 11th Revbattlesys merge to Main Branch. - OTvote opened for OTfans OTvote.otfans.net. * December - December 27th Khaos begins rewriting The Outcast. [edit] 2007 * January - OTServ Development Awards 2006 winners announced by wrzasq at otfans.net. - OTServ Development Awards 2007 starting announced by Arkold Thos in late January due to organization problems. * February - First version of The Forgotten Server is released by Talaturen. * April - OTFans 2 years anniversary. - New OTFans Downloads Database added. - Nikolas released the first AAC for The Forgotten Server distro. - Avarian released AF-AAC, the first AAC/CMS for The Forgotten Server distro. * May - OTServ News 1 year anniversary. - Talaturen founds ****** community. * June - June 15th jakexblaster is back. * August - XTibia, the official community of OpenTibia in Brazil commemorates two years. - revdbsys branch started to remove XML database support, this is managed by wrzasq. * September - revnetsys re-started by spin and Sim0ne. * October - revnetsys is merged to the repository by spin. - OTFans reorganize their forum structure and usergroups. - revdbsys is merged to the repository by spin. * December - Remere releases his map editor. - YATC v0.1 is released. - otserv81 is merged to the repository by spin. [edit] 2008 * January - Otservhispano, the official Spanish-talking site got closed due to organization problems - eOtfans opened by Arkold Thos and becomes the official Spanish-talking site. - bitLib is implemented into the project - sha1 is implemented as a hash for accounts * February - Data folder is done for release of 0.6.0 OTServ * April - OTFans gets a new fresh design and updates to vBulletin 3.7 * May - OTvote gets a face lift and some major upgrades.
From OTFans wiki:
Code:2001 * February - Shi'Voc heard about Snyder's tibia 6.0 emulator and thought about making his own with Acrimon thus the birth of OTserv. - Packet sniffing and decoding was done by Protos - Tliff made a program to extract the graphics from tibia client. [edit] 2002 * June - OTServ has its own mini forum on WoT. Blast from the past [edit] 2003 * Before November - Many OTServ staff lose interest in the project and go on leave. - K-Zodron joins otserv. Everybody cares. - Thax joins otserv too, but nobody cares. Thax doesn't care about it. * November - OTServ v2.7 is added to SourceForge. - OTServ v2.7a is added to SourceForge. - Tliff posts that he will no longer be active and that he wishes someone would take his place for the time being. [edit] 2004 * April - Haktivex joins OTServ staff as lead programmer. - Sharki joins as the official OTserv mapper. * June - Haktivex experiments with packets, and created the very first spells. * September - Very first edition of the battle system was created, very buggy, but it ran. - Sharki asks for a helper, Exorid is then picked as the 2nd official OTserv mapper. * November - Fandoras shows Tibia Dark Age (or just TDA) to the public, his own version of OTServ created in C#. This went on to be the core of the new OTServ, recoded in C++. This server had a much more stable battle system, as well as spells. - OTServ 0.3.0 that had the battle system featured was rated as the most popular otserv download and most awaited to be released. - Sharki leaves OTserv making Exorid new lead mapper. - Fandoras shows off his open source map editor for OTServ. - Tliff and Shivoc come back and start working on OTserv. Haktivex steps down as lead programmer. - First OTServ List was made by DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf. Blast from the past - Tibia Deathmatch origins from TDA which was released to the public by Rey; it was once famous because of similarity's to Reebow's project name (Deathmatch) - Later removed from Tibianews, WoT. - Official OpenTibia test server is opened and run by Tliff - Exorid stops work on Official map since it wasnt being used by the test server. - Nuker joins OTServ. * December - CIP emails WoT asking them to get rid of the OpenTibia Board on thier forums. WoT seem to accept this. - A community is formed, OTCommunity is the name. Leaded by Foziw and Jorris, it rapidly grows up, mainly due to the OT'ers of WoT that came out from there, accepting OTCommunity as the new "official" community (at current moment). - Tibia Deathmatch is banned from all official OTServ and TDA communities. - jakexblaster joins OTServ with both a MapEditor (based on Fandoras' works) and a simplist map format [edit] 2005 * January - DeathfireD leaves OTServ because of server list complications. * February - Zuttlan & some other key people leave OTcommunity and go into retirement. - DeathfireD and Exorid form Tibia Dark Age now known as The Dark Age asked Fandoras and Haktivex to join. Both leave OTserv staff because of minor/major issues (some involving there positions in the OTserv staff) and joined TDA. - jakexblaster with Fandoras' help implements the first steps of the multileveling on OTserv: the project now gets "3D". * March - jakexblaster leaves the community temporally, due to college season. - Official OpenTibia test server had some problems and was shutdown. - OTFans is created by Yorick, Nuker and Verkon. Is virtually unheard of at the time. The biggest community at the present time, OTcommunity, had some kind of "generalized crisis". * April - OTFans starts to grow, Pekay finds OTFans. * May - jakexblaster comes back to the OpenTibia server community, releasing the fifth version of his MapEditor. * June - OTFans grows massively, making it one of the biggest communities in OTserv. * July - OTCommunity falls down and merges with Tibiafans causing them to lose a big piece of their members which in turn joined the OTFans community. - XTibia.com is created by Gustavo. XTibia is the biggest Brazilian community at the present time and the most stable Otserv's website * October - Alpha version of Open Tibia Client by fike released. - Development of The Outcast, an alternative 3D client, begins by Khaos. * November - The current official OTserv developers (Simone, Spin and Primer) launchs the OpenTibia Binary Map (OTBM) based on the OTB idea, also made by the current team. Maps get its size reduced. - Arkold Thos launch Otserv Development Awards 2005 but get closed some days later. [edit] 2006 * January - Arkold Thos and wrzasq launch OTServ Development Awards 2006. - DeathfireD and Martin the Dwarf bring back an updated version of the first OTserv list made back in 2004. OTserv List Revived * February - OTFans is critised for it's act and some new ideas. - Pekay is fired from Administrator of OTFans for a staff comment and not caring. After two days talk with Pekay and Yorick get Pekay back in his position as administrator, but Pekay demands better deals in improving OTFans. * March - Enforced rules, now all binarys servers need to release sources (GPL). * April - April fools joke played on Otfans.net - OTserv thread is re-opened on WoT. * May - Tibia shows off their updated client with encryption, DirectX5/9 and OpenGL support also some minor helpfull things built into the GUI. - Official OTserv developers along with TDA members and a few other great programmers, brainstorm on how to decrypt new client in order to keep Otserv true to its name (open tibia server) currently they understand how it works and have a few proof of concept ideas. - OTserv's new CVS has the decryption function for the tibia client added in but is still being tested. - OTfans had a meeting that went over SQL and alot of other little things related to the site and the development of OTserv. - May 14th jakexblaster leaves OTserv and posts his goodbye (see Here) - OTserv Wikipedia article for deletion. [http://otfans.net/showthread.php?p=364685 - OTserv News Started OTserv News. - May 29th OTserv Wikipedia deleted. * June - Minor updates of Tibia Client. - OtFans Staff Metting. * July - DeathfireD re-opends OTserv 7.1 list due to some servers not showing up on OTservlist.org, this list is only for old Open Tibia Servers 7.1 and under. - July 22th Vitor, Anstice and BlackDemon started a new CVS project written from scratch. The New OTServ is an OTServ made to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The project was formerly known as The New OTServ (TNO). * September - Official opening of the OTserv Central Database. - Otserv Package for Debian in http://mentors.debian.net by Arkold Thos. * October - Linux forums openned in Otfans.net. - Public release of Otserv Package for Debian in Otfans.net by Arkold Thos - Otserv Development Awards 2006 (ODA06), the project of Arkold Thos and wrzasq voting phase started. * November - OTserv Central Database closes due to Tliffs server crashing. - November 11th Revbattlesys merge to Main Branch. - OTvote opened for OTfans OTvote.otfans.net. * December - December 27th Khaos begins rewriting The Outcast. [edit] 2007 * January - OTServ Development Awards 2006 winners announced by wrzasq at otfans.net. - OTServ Development Awards 2007 starting announced by Arkold Thos in late January due to organization problems. * February - First version of The Forgotten Server is released by Talaturen. * April - OTFans 2 years anniversary. - New OTFans Downloads Database added. - Nikolas released the first AAC for The Forgotten Server distro. - Avarian released AF-AAC, the first AAC/CMS for The Forgotten Server distro. * May - OTServ News 1 year anniversary. - Talaturen founds ****** community. * June - June 15th jakexblaster is back. * August - XTibia, the official community of OpenTibia in Brazil commemorates two years. - revdbsys branch started to remove XML database support, this is managed by wrzasq. * September - revnetsys re-started by spin and Sim0ne. * October - revnetsys is merged to the repository by spin. - OTFans reorganize their forum structure and usergroups. - revdbsys is merged to the repository by spin. * December - Remere releases his map editor. - YATC v0.1 is released. - otserv81 is merged to the repository by spin. [edit] 2008 * January - Otservhispano, the official Spanish-talking site got closed due to organization problems - eOtfans opened by Arkold Thos and becomes the official Spanish-talking site. - bitLib is implemented into the project - sha1 is implemented as a hash for accounts * February - Data folder is done for release of 0.6.0 OTServ * April - OTFans gets a new fresh design and updates to vBulletin 3.7 * May - OTvote gets a face lift and some major upgrades.
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Yeah thats how i belived ots started, a gm got kicked out of the team and he had codes so he released them..