2023

2023 was a common (non-leap) year starting on Sunday of Gregorian calendar. It is a third year of 2020s decade. It is also a year where RepOfCATV95 marked 6 years since creating on its voiceover videos that started on December 22, 2016 and also a year when Windows 8.1 has been reached the end of life (EOL) on January 10, 2023 (January 11, 2023).

## Events

### January

* January 10 - Windows 8.1's extended support ended on January 10, 2023 (January 11, 2023, CATV 95 Time) along with Windows 7's ESU support.
* January 15/16 - DOTA 2: Sha Nachnetsya got another ranked matchmaking ban for smurfing (again) until January 12, 2024 6:44:59 p.m. (January 13, 2024 12:14:59 a.m., CATV 95 Time), just few weeks before the end of 26th RC95 Year (February 15, 2024).
* January 28 - Warcraft III: RepOfCATV95 released Ventoe War Zone 6.2's third release candidate at 11:50 p.m. on January 27, 2023.

### February

* February 12 - Warcraft III: RepOfCATV95 released Ventoe War Zone 6.2's post-RC3 at about 9:30 p.m and would went on to release last three builds preceding the final one (scheduled to be released on April 5, 2023 3:30 a.m.) which will serve as a base for Ventoe War Zone 10.

### April

* April 5 - Warcraft III: RepOfCATV95 released Ventoe War Zone 6.2's Build 9200 at 11:58 p.m. of previous day and declared it as a RTM build at 12:03:21 a.m. Wednesday.
* April 28 - Warcraft III: Ventoe War Zone 6.2's Build 9200.21945 was released and would later became the very last release to be based on Ventoe Longhorn codebase, as Ventoe Sun Valley's Build 19645 will be released on Thursday of mid-June 2023.
* April 30 - James Tabor, one of ReactOS Project's contributors, passed away due to heart attack.

### May

* May 15-25 - Andrew Kotpaw (a.k.a. Enderman) lost his YouTube videos falsely flagged as harmful content and would have fallen victim to YouTube's selective justice if strikes were not entirely removed.
* May 31 - Warcraft III: Ventoe Sun Valley's codebase was scrapped due to permanent compatibility, stability and reliability issues becoming harder to fix. The current one was re-created from scratch but Ventoe War Zone 6.2's object data will carried over to recently-rebooted Version 10.0.

### June

* June 2 - RepOfCATV95 announced that The Masquerade Standard Time, Polynomial 3.0 Standard Time and NM48 Standard Time will be terminated on June 15, 2023.
* June 25 - Warcraft III: Ventoe War Zone 6.2 Update became a last release ever based on Ventoe Longhorn codebase.

### July

* July 15 - RepOfCATV95's Second Era will end at 12:00 a.m. RCT (4:30 p.m. UTC Friday, July 14, 2023). The third era will begin on the same day.

### December

* December 14 - DOTA 2: Sha Nachnetsya's main DOTA 2 account was unbanned nearly one year after his last game dated December 14, 2022 (prior to New Frontiers update).
* December 15 - DOTA 2: Mason was permanently expelled and banned from DOTA 2 community after receiving the **Highly Toxic Lump of Coal** Frostivus gift from Valve as a result of boosting his behavior score. Valve will from now on refuse Mason's request to unban his DOTA 2 account for over 24 years.
* December 18 - Warcraft III: RepOfCATV95 released Ventoe War Zone 10.0's latest build that updated loading screen and map preview bitmaps. Similar changes will be backported to Ventoe War Zone 6.2 or earlier releases.
* December 22 - DOTA 2: The first point release of 7.35 series was published by Valve.
* December 27 - Warcraft III: RepOfCATV95 ported Ring of Tarrasque from DOTA Artifact and DOTA 2's 7.35 into Ventoe War Zone Versions 6.2 and 10.0.

## Summary about 2023

Here is the list of past, current or future events about this year 2023.

Events of 2023
 January 11, 2023
 February 8, 2023
 February 13-17, 2023
 February 16, 2023
 May 13, 2023
 September 14, 2023
 September 24, 2023
 December 6, 2023
 December 31, 2023