Roblox had a big change in 2006. In January 2006, Roblox removed their special points and made multiplayer, but the API was never used until March 2006. In February 2006, Roblox left beta and was made free for all players. In September 2006, Roblox made changes to the multiplayer API so that players could make their own multiplayer games for free instead of the developers making them.
In May 2007, the Roblox developers began making virtual items, and its first virtual item was a top hat. Roblox also started the Builders Club which is a paid membership.
Guest mode, which is for players that want to play Roblox without making an account, was introduced in 2008. Later, higher forms of the Builders Club (known as the Turbo Builders Club and the Outrageous Builders Club) were started in 2009.
In 2010, Roblox Studio was changed so that game developers could understand its functions easily.
In 2011, Roblox released its first commercial. The commercial had the well known quote, "IT'S FREE."
On 1 April 2012, Roblox was hacked. It caused the Roblox website to be shut down that day. On 2 April 2012, the website was recovered.
In 2013, Roblox added dynamic lighting. Its purpose was to make more realistic lighting. This update would eventually receive more updates in the coming years.
In June 2015, Roblox released Smooth Terrain which made the terrain (such as sand, grass, water, etc.) more realistic.
On 14 April 2016, Tix was removed.
In January 2017, Roblox changed their logo.
In October 2017, Roblox removed Guest Mode.
In 2019, Builders Club was replaced with Roblox Premium.
In December 2020, Roblox announced that players would soon no longer need Premium to upload clothing, but instead, pay a fee for 10 Robux per upload. The change was added in March 2021.
In May 2021, an anonymous user filed a class action lawsuit against the Roblox Corporation for allegedly ripping off players for not giving out refunds when moderated items get deleted.
In June 2021, a group of music publishers sued the Roblox corporation for mass copyright infringement seeking 200 million dollars from them.
Roblox lets its players create their own games using its special program called Roblox Studio. Players on Roblox can build anything they please using the Studio and then publish their game to the Roblox website for everyone to play. If the player knows how to code they can use studio to change the game.
In some games, the creator may create game passes that will cost a certain amount of Robux to buy. These passes usually give benefits.
Players on Roblox can buy virtual items from the Catalog using virtual currency. This currency is obtained by selling items on Roblox or logging in daily if a player has a Builders Club. There is only one currency as of 2016, Robux (R$), which can only be obtained by purchasing Roblox Premium membership, uploading gamepasses or clothing, buying a Robux card from certain shops, or using a credit card or PayPal on the Roblox website. Robux is used to buy items such as Gear (tools to use in-game such as swords) and Hats. On the Character page, players can change their clothing and customize their character as they please. All the virtual items that a player bought from the catalog appear here. Roblox sometimes gives away free items during special events.
Another form of currency that was discontinued was the Tix (Tickets). All players could get a few Tix each day they log into Roblox, and trade those Tix in to get Robux. The Tix were removed from the game in March 2016.
Builders Club was Roblox's first membership club which could only be used through a purchase. Builders Club gave its members more features in Roblox, such as earning its virtual currency called Robux, and the ability to trade items. Another thing players could do was sell Limited items (buy-able and sell-able items on the Avatar Shop). There were three types of Builders Club: Classic, Turbo, and Outrageous. Classic was the original Builders Club type and Outrageous was the newest. Players would either buy it monthly or annually.
In 2019, Builder's Club was removed and replaced with Premium. Premium is very much like the original Builders Club except it gives players Robux every month instead of every day. Premium players also get access to perks in select games.
Coco (2017 movie)
Coco is an American movie made by Pixar and was released on November 22, 2017. It was directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, and stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez and Benjamin Bratt. The movie centers on a boy named Miguel who dreams of being a musician and is then taken to a mysterious place.
"Coco" was released with "Olaf's Frozen Adventure", a short movie that runs for about 14 minutes in theaters before "Coco" is shown.
Blimp
A blimp is a kind of airship. Some airships have a structure in them. They have no structure in them. They were used by the United States in WWII to fight against submarines. They are now used mostly for advertising.
Balloon (aircraft)
A balloon is a kind of aircraft that stays in the sky by floating. People fly in balloons mostly for fun.
A balloon is different from an airship. An airship is a floating aircraft that has an engine and can change its direction of movement. A balloon has no engine and has no way to change its direction of movement (except up and down). A balloon travels by moving with the wind.
The bottom of the balloon is called the "basket" where people can sit or stand.
The top of a balloon is a big cloth bag called the "envelope".
There are three kinds of balloon aircraft:
Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-French-American mathematician. Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw into a Jewish-Lithuanian family. He is best known for his works with fractal geometry. He lived and worked until his death in the United States. He was a professor at the University of Yale.
Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw, Poland. His family lived in France under German occupation. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His most known development is the Mandelbrot set, which he discovered and described in 1979.
Echolocation
Echolocation is a way that some animals use to determine the location of things. They emit sound waves and listen for the echo. They use the delay to determine the distance. It is a kind of biological sonar.
Microbats find their insect prey in the dark this way. Whales and dolphins are two other kinds of mammals that use echolocation. Their sound waves go through the water, while the bats' sound waves go through the air.
Radar is man-made echolocation using radio waves.
Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction author. He has written about war across the galaxy, artificial universes, consciousness, and evolution.
Bear was born in San Diego, California. From 1968 to 1973 he attended San Diego State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1975, he married Christina M. Nielson, but they divorced in 1981. He remarried in 1983, to Astrid Anderson, the daughter of science fiction author Poul Anderson. They have two children, Erik and Alexandra. They live outside of Seattle, Washington.
Bear is often called a hard science fiction author because he uses many scientific details in his work.