| 1985-1990 | The original versions of the games found in Adventure Games Live's The Early Years and More Early Years are written in Applesoft BASIC. |
| 1990 | The original versions of Enchanted Forest are written in BASIC, using colored ASCII for graphics. |
| 1990-91 | The rules to Pickle are formulated, which would later appear in the Pips feature in 2004. Pickle would be the only original game in the Pips collection created before 2002. |
| Fall 1991 | The original console-based version of Fantasy Quest is written in BASIC. A port of the game would later debut with Adventure Games Live. |
| 1993 | Work on the original console-based UNIX version of Murkon's Refuge begins. It is later put aside for two years before being completed. |
| 1994 | The first version of Fnames, a UNIX/C program later ported to the web as Fantasy Name Generator is written. It would undergo numerous enhancements and revisions over the next year or so. |
| Summer 1994 | The Duel of the Ages is written under the original title The War. |
| September 1994 | First public release of the text version of The Apogee FAQ. |
| February 1995 | The Apogee FAQ is ported to HTML and placed on the web as a standalone feature. |
| 1995 | The original console-based UNIX version of Murkon's Refuge is completed. |
| June 17, 1995 | The web version of The Apogee FAQ is disbanded. |
| September 13, 1995 | Lights & Noises is written (though it would not become a part of RinkWorks for another four years). |
| Early September 1996 | Computer Stupidities is created as a text document that is not extensively distributed. |
| September 1996 | At-A-Glance Film Reviews opens on the web as an independent feature. |
| May 7, 1997 | A new "Recommendations" section opens on At-A-Glance Film Reviews with sections for Fantasy Epics, Horse Movies, and Swashbucklers. More were soon added; later, the section would be changed from "Recommendations" to "Films By Genre." |
| May 20, 1997 | At-A-Glance Film Reviews goes down for a day or two. I accidentally delete all my reviews and, in spite of my strong belief in backups, don't have one. The system administrator (the site was then hosted by my school) restores everything from their tapes. |
| September 16, 1997 | The short story Strong Woman is completed (having been started the previous day). Three years later, it would appear in Story Hunt as Strong Woman and the Siege. |
| October 2, 1997 | Strong Woman and the Renegade is completed (having been started on September 18). It later appeared in Story Hunt under the same title. |
| December 1, 1997 | Dave posts a review of the movie Carnosaur on At-A-Glance Film Reviews which later became the basis for The Filmmaker's Exam. |
| December 8, 1997 | RinkWorks first appears on the web as a brand name. The main page lists, in the following order: At-A-Glance Film Reviews (which previously existed), Book-A-Minute SF/F (which opened at this time), The Apogee FAQ (version 6.0 and a new web-based format opened at this time), The Everett Kaser Software FAQ (which was listed as coming soon), Computer Stupidities (which was also listed as coming soon), and The Filmmaker's Exam (which opened at this time). |
| January 27, 1998 | The Computer Stupidities web site opens. |
| April 1, 1998 | Dave's Somewhat Complete SF/F Writers' Resources, which previously existed as a stand-alone feature of Dave's, joins RinkWorks. |
| April 8, 1998 | RinkWorks gets its own domain name: www.rinkworks.com. |
| April 29, 1998 | The Dialectizer opens with just the Redneck, Jive, and Elmer Fudd dialects. |
| May 1998 | Book-A-Minute Bedtime opens. |
| May 13, 1998 | The first entry is made in the Site Journal. |
| May 28, 1998 | The Swedish Chef dialect is added to The Dialectizer. |
| May 29, 1998 | Don't Throw a Brick Straight Up opens. |
| June 4, 1998 | The Moron dialect is added to The Dialectizer. |
| June 8, 1998 | The Pig Latin translator is added to The Dialectizer. |
| June 15, 1998 | The Cockney dialect is added to The Dialectizer. |
| June 22, 1998 | The first version of The Everett Kaser Software FAQ (both text and web versions) is released. |
| June 27, 1998 | Brain Food opens. |
| July 16, 1998 | After problems arising from the system resources required by The Dialectizer, RinkWorks goes down. An ill-arranged move to a different web hosting service takes RinkWorks out for eleven days. |
| July 27, 1998 | RinkWorks comes back up on the new web hosting service. We switched back three months later. Also, I Think opens. |
| July 30, 1998 | Dave's Somewhat Complete SF/F Writers' Resources moves to the www.rinkworks.com server. |
| August 6, 1998 | Crazy Tales opens with only the "Original Stories" and "Classic Stories" sections. |
| August 12, 1998 | The Reader Survey is posted. |
| August 19, 1998 | The first message is posted to the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| August 23, 1998 | Slapdash City opens. |
| August 31, 1998 | Book-A-Minute Classics opens. |
| September 8, 1998 | The Duel of the Ages opens. It had actually been finished for about a week, but its release was delayed to distance it from the opening of Book-A-Minute Classics. |
| September 9, 1998 | My second web hosting service has problems with the system resources consumed by The Dialectizer and shuts the web page portion off. |
| September 15, 1998 | A "random movie review" link is installed on At-A-Glance Film Reviews. |
| September 17, 1998 | I complete and install a rewrite of The Dialectizer that is much lighter on system resources. |
| September 22, 1998 | The first mailing is sent out to the RinkWorks Mailing List. |
| September 23, 1998 | The first RinkWorks Site Market Game begins. |
| October 7, 1998 | Things People Said opens. |
| October 16, 1998 | RinkWorks switches back to its original web hosting service. This time the switch is seamless. |
| November 2, 1998 | Dave posts a message to the RinkWorks Message Forum asking for readers to vote for the book he reads and condenses next. |
| November 6, 1998 | An automatic voting system is installed on Book-A-Minute for future book elections. |
| November 11, 1998 | EquiWorks opens. |
| November 14, 1998 | The main RinkWorks page is reorganized so that the features would be sorted by topical category rather than by "feature" or "featurette." |
| November 18, 1998 | Adventure Games Live opens with only The Trainer, Fantasy Quest, and a "coming soon" notice for The Game of the Ages. |
| November 30, 1998 | Movie-A-Minute opens. |
| December 16, 1998 | Enchanted Forest opens. |
| December 28, 1998 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is shut off temporarily again due to the exponentially increasing number of people using it. |
| January 8, 1999 | How To Be Funny opens. Also, the web page portion of The Dialectizer is reactivated. |
| January 9, 1999 | This timeline is first posted. |
| January 21, 1999 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is disabled again. |
| January 27, 1999 | The Classic Games site opens. |
| February 10, 1999 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is brought back up with a restriction on how many people can use it simultaneously. A bug occurs where the script falsely reports other simultaneous users when there are none; thus, it is unavailable for much of the day. This bug is fixed on the morning of the following day. |
| February 22, 1999 | It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie opens. |
| March 12, 1999 | The reader reviews section opens on It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie. |
| April 7, 1999 | The "RinkWorks Excerpts" section is added to Crazy Tales. |
| April 9, 1999 | Really Bad Jokes opens. Computer Stupidities surpasses 1000 anecdotes. |
| April 23, 1999 | I Think is broken up into subpages instead of all being on a single page. Coincidentally, it also passes the 100 thought mark. |
| May 19, 1999 | "Random" links are installed on It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie, I Think, and Really Bad Jokes. |
| June 11, 1999 | The front page on Brain Food is reorganized into a table format. The Enchanted Forest high score list surpasses 10000 scores. |
| July 2, 1999 | Trivia Stampede opens with the RinkWorks, Bible, Academy Award, Word, Horse, and James Bond categories. |
| July 9, 1999 | The RinkMail service opens. |
| July 11, 1999 | A new Trivia Stampede category, Spelling Bee, debuts. |
| July 18, 1999 | Fantasy Name Generator, a web port of the UNIX/C program Fnames version 2.4, opens. |
| July 29, 1999 | The 5000th message is posted to the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| September 7, 1999 | A new Trivia Stampede category, Auto Racing Trivia, debuts. |
| September 9, 1999 | Hints pages were added for the games on Adventure Games Live. |
| September 10, 1999 | A new Trivia Stampede category, Card and Board Game Trivia, debuts. |
| September 14, 1999 | How To Be Romantic opens. Also, a contest to come up with what the acronym "RINKWORKS" might stand for begins in the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| September 22, 1999 | The RinkWorks acronym contest is judged; a new Contests page is opened to provide the rules and results for this and future contests. |
| September 24, 1999 | Hacking takes RinkWorks down. The site is restored the next day. |
| September 27, 1999 | A new Trivia Stampede category, Cow Trivia, debuts. |
| October 4, 1999 | "Top 10 Players" replaces "Top 10 Scores" on the Enchanted Forest scoreboard. |
| October 6, 1999 | A site index column is added to the front page. Also, the first Reader Poll question is posted. |
| November 2, 1999 | The 10000th message is posted to the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| November 9, 1999 | The front page layout is tweaked so the Site Index starts higher, next to the header banner. |
| November 10, 1999 | RinkWorks Greeting Cards opens. |
| November 19, 1999 | RinkChat opens. |
| November 22, 1999 | Logos are created and installed for seven of the RinkWorks features that didn't have any: the Site Journal, the Message Forum, RinkChat, the Reader Poll, the Mailing List, Contests, the Site Market Game, and the Reader Survey. The Site Journal's subtitle, "Gab and Gossip," is dropped. |
| November 23, 1999 | Logos are created and installed for Contests, RinkMail, and Greeting Cards. |
| November 29, 1999 | The feature description listing is moved from the front page to a new Site Guide page; in its place, a brief listing of new content and spotlights on existing content is added. |
| December 8, 1999 | Lights & Noises opens. |
| December 16, 1999 | The Official RinkWorks Couple is announced. |
| December 20, 1999 | The transcript archive page of RinkChat opens. |
| January 14, 2000 | Poetry Pool opens. |
| January 21, 2000 | The first annual Stupid Day celebration occurs with updates to Don't Throw a Brick Straight Up, Computer Stupidities, It's a Bad Bad Bad Bad Movie, and Things People Said. A Stupid Day section had opened in the Greeting Cards area a few days earlier. |
| January 24, 2000 | The Holidays page opens. (The Stupid Day page only was up in that area since the 20th.) |
| February 29, 2000 | The front page of Crazy Tales is reorganized into a table format. |
| March 10, 2000 | Insults were added to the Fantasy Name Generator, bumping the script version up to 1.1. |
| March 22, 2000 | Enchanted Forest II opens. |
| May 10, 2000 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is closed to all but the RinkWorks site itself. |
| May 17, 2000 | Pea Soup for the Cynic's Soul opens. |
| May 18, 2000 | The Demographic Survey and Privacy Policy are posted to the site. |
| May 25, 2000 | The front page of Computer Stupidities is reorganized into a table format. |
| June 5, 2000 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is brought back up, this time with robot exclusion support, the infamous Microsoft IIS web server bug fixed, and improved HTML parsing. |
| June 12, 2000 | Story Hunt opens. |
| June 23, 2000 | The Hacker dialect is added to The Dialectizer. |
| June 26, 2000 | The "Articles" section opens on At-A-Glance Film Reviews, with the "Great Comedies" and "Letterbox Vs. Pan-n-Scan" articles. |
| September 11, 2000 | The Mystery of Brackly Hall opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| November 9, 2000 | The Perils of Akumos opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| November 15, 2000 | The preview page in the Message Forum is expanded to allow you to make corrections right there; this fixes problems some people were having where hitting the "back" button caused the message to disappear. |
| January 12, 2001 | The Game of the Ages opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| January 21, 2001 | The Adventures of Smart Man opens as part of the second annual Stupid Day celebration. |
| January 26, 2001 | A new version of RinkChat is released that permits users to create their own public or private rooms. |
| February 19, 2001 | How To Be Persuasive opens. |
| April 18, 2001 | Dave's Somewhat Complete SF/F Writers' Internet Resources is moved off RinkWorks to its new home at http://www.writesff.com/resources/. |
| May 6, 2001 | Fun With Words opens. |
| August 21, 2001 | A new Trivia Stampede category, Video Game Trivia, debuts. |
| August 26, 2001 | Difficulty ratings are added to Adventure Games Live. |
| August 29, 2001 | Trail of Anguish opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| September 20, 2001 | Puzzle Games opens. |
| October 2, 2001 | The Message Forum splits up into three separate boards, with new threads disallowed on the first: RinkWorks Board #1, RinkWorks Board #2, and Hints Board. |
| January 12, 2002 | Mushy pet names are added to the Fantasy Name Generator, bumping the script version up to 1.2. The Simple Interface, which contained only a "Generate Names" button, is removed, and the Flexible Interface is renamed the Simple Interface. |
| January 21, 2002 | Idiot names are added to the Fantasy Name Generator, bumping the script version up to 1.3, as part of the annual Stupid Day celebration. |
| February 8, 2002 | The 50000th message is posted to the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| March 15, 2002 | RinkWorks Gifts opens. Also, the main page and the Site Guide are prettied up with blue menu and title bars. |
| March 23, 2002 | Murkon's Refuge opens. |
| March 29, 2002 | Really Bad Jokes surpasses 500 jokes. |
| May 1, 2002 | The Middle Earth Trivia and Angband Trivia categories open on Trivia Stampede. |
| August 8, 2002 | A username/password email reminder feature is implemented for Adventure Games Live. |
| August 9, 2002 | A username/password email reminder feature is implemented for Enchanted Forest. |
| September 15, 2002 | RinkMail is discontinued due to unacceptably poor service from BigMailBox, the company that provided the service. |
| September 22, 2002 | Fantasy Quest II opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| October 7, 2002 | The first Site Market Game in over two years is announced (which would start on the 13th) after the scripts that run the game are automated, allowing games to run without any manual intervention. |
| December 22, 2002 | The Computer Game Trivia category opens on Trivia Stampede. |
| January 13, 2003 | The Best Films of the 1990s is added to the "Articles" section on At-A-Glance Film Reviews. |
| January 18, 2003 | Academy Awards Predictions Game opens. |
| February 22, 2003 | RinkChat is upgraded to use the v0.14 beta version of the RookChat engine. |
| March 13, 2003 | Two new artist pages, for Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg, are added to At-A-Glance Film Reviews. |
| March 14, 2003 | A new genre page, Movies On Movies, is added to At-A-Glance Film Reviews. |
| June 2, 2003 | The 2000th review is posted to At-A-Glance Film Reviews. |
| July 15, 2003 | RinkWorks Gifts closes. |
| August 5, 2003 | RookChat v1.0 is released, and its home page opens. |
| September 1, 2003 | The first September Blitz occurs: a new update every weekday throughout the month of September, accompanied by a pledge drive notice. |
| September 5, 2003 | RookChat v2.0 and v2.01 are released. |
| September 12, 2003 | FNN opens. |
| September 19, 2003 | The Geography Trivia category opens on Trivia Stampede. |
| October 30, 2003 | RookChat v2.1 is released. |
| January 27, 2004 | The Film-Lover's Check List opens. |
| March 5, 2004 | The Car Trivia category opens on Trivia Stampede. |
| April 1, 2004 | Monster Arena opens. |
| April 21, 2004 | Pips opens. |
| May 17, 2004 | RinkWorks Subscriptions become available. The RinkWorks Museum opens. |
| May 22, 2004 | A playable demo of Starlight Sacrifice, an upcoming Adventure Games Live game, opens in the subscription-only area. Also, the RinkWorks Museum gets its own logo. |
| August 11, 2004 | Without any changes to any of the RinkWorks code, the server it runs on, or its network traffic patterns, suddenly the load on the server skyrockets. The CPU usage reports spike, and web page loads, particularly for RinkChat, take an unacceptably long time. A collaborative effort with Dreamhost to track the problem down begins; ultimately, it is unsuccessful. The site's daily traffic levels drop 40% as the problem goes unresolved for the rest of the month. |
| September 1, 2004 | A new account on a faster machine with a new hosting service provider, set up some days previously, becomes active when the DNS servers for the rinkworks.com domain is changed. For simplicity, no Monster Arena tournament runs in September. The Site Market Game in progress does not get a price update, and the price changes to follow are skewed as the DNS change propagates. The second annual September Blitz begins, retroactively for most users, whose DNS settings won't update to the new server until the next day or later. |
| September 3, 2004 | Various specialized name templates are added to the Fantasy Name Generator, bumping the version up to 1.4. |
| September 17, 2004 | The 1990 BASIC versions of Enchanted Forest are released as subscriber-only downloads. |
| September 21, 2004 | The web page portion of The Dialectizer is rewritten in Python to overcome some incompatibilities the old Perl version had with the new machine. It hadn't been working since the server switch, but the problem went undiagnosed for quite a while. |
| September 24, 2004 | The Genres II page is added to The Film-Lover's Check List. |
| September 30, 2004 | The Comic Book Trivia category opens on Trivia Stampede. |
| November 15, 2004 | Adventure Games Live is switched over to use the completely rewritten Smash engine. Moments later, the new game Outlaws of the Sierra Nevadas opens. |
| January 30, 2005 | The Early Years opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| February 22, 2005 | The Stoddard page is added to The Film-Lover's Check List. |
| March 16, 2005 | RinkWorks Gifts reopens. Besides the previously available RinkWorks souvenirs, souvenirs for The Dialectizer and Fantasy Quest are also available. |
| April 5, 2005 | A search box is added to the main page. |
| April 19, 2005 | The Film-Lover's Check List is enhanced with the ability for users to create their own pages of movies. |
| May 5, 2005 | The Role-Player's Vault opens with the new game Murkon's Vengeance. Murkon's Refuge is moved to be contained in The Role-Player's Vault as well. |
| August 2, 2005 | RinkWorks Graffiti opens with two graffiti images originally created in 2002 and 2004. |
| August 22, 2005 | The Reader Survey closes. |
| September 9, 2005 | The Fantasy Novelist's Exam opens. |
| September 23, 2005 | RookChat v3.0 is released. |
| November 25, 2005 | Search features are added to Really Bad Jokes and I Think. |
| December 13, 2005 | Escape From St. Mary's opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| January 21, 2006 | Elsa is added to Slapdash City as part of the annual Stupid Day celebration. |
| April 10, 2006 | The Word Searches page is added to Brain Food, and interactive controls are added to the Logi-Number pages so the puzzles can be solved online. |
| August 5, 2006 | The 100000th message is posted to the RinkWorks Message Forum. |
| October 3, 2006 | All Movie Talk opens. |
| October 30, 2006 | Fairy Tale Stew opens, with only the first four stories initially available. Eight more roll out over the course of the next two weeks. |
| September 25, 2007 | The 52nd and final All Movie Talk episode airs. |
| October 22, 2007 | More Early Years opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| February 4-22, 2008 | Ultimate Bot Tournament #4 takes place, during which time the basic storyline for The Mystery of Paradise Island is improvised and performed. |
| March 7, 2008 | Writing on the first draft of The Mystery of Paradise Island begins. |
| January 26, 2009 | The Mystery of Paradise Island becomes available for purchase. |
| March 9, 2009 | The Cat's Meow becomes available for sale from The Duel of the Ages. |
| March 13, 2009 | The "What's New" section on the main page gets an RSS feed. |
| March 20, 2009 | The RinkWorks Graffiti feature gets an RSS feed. |
| April 30, 2009 | Sinbad Comic opens. |
| January 1, 2010 | The EquiWorks Photo-A-Day project begins. |
| February 7, 2010 | Many new features are added to The Film-Lover's Check List, including each title linking to the IMDb. |
| April 11, 2010 | A new playable demo of Starlight Sacrifice opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| April 29, 2010 | Season 2 of Sinbad Comic begins. |
| May 12, 2010 | Assault On Vampire Island opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| July 16, 2010 | RinkWorks Greetings is discontinued, largely from the realization that the custom card service had been removed at some point within the last several years. |
| December 30, 2011 | Three mini-games, Snow Dragon, Break Away, and Escape! are released on Adventure Games Live. |
| October 18, 2012 | Season 3 of Sinbad Comic begins. |
| November 9, 2012 | The Studio Movie Trading Game opens. |
| December 6, 2014 | African Adventure opens on Adventure Games Live. |
| March 29, 2018 | Season 4 of Sinbad Comic begins. |
