| October 1995 | torpid.com created. "lazy.com" was taken, so we searched in a handy thesaurus (the one that came for free on my roomates NeXT cube) and found the word torpid. network access provided via 28.8 dialup PPP. |
| September 1996 | torpid.com is stealthfully placed under desk at magnify research in order to leech T1 bandwidth. |
| October 1997 | network access cut off by the evil bastards at network solutions because we forgot to pay our bill. emergency credit card payment via phone saves the day. |
| January 1998 | server moved to alexa internet in sunny california due to job change. joy of sitting on a 12Mbps connection dampened by the fact that the web crawler and service uses up 11.5Mbps |
| February 1999 | server moved to new hiding place at desktop. unwise coversion to linux from bsd facilitates hack attempts. torpid.com is twice compromised by root attacks |
| March 2000 | server moved to a dirt cheap colo. |
| March 2002 | To support the war on terror, alert status monitor added. Initialized to "Yellow" setting. |
| September 10, 2002 | Moved alert status to "Orange" setting. |
| October 9, 2002 | Belated return to "Yellow" setting. |
| January 28, 2003 | Removed alert status meter. War on terror is over - replaced by war on Iraq. |
| October 16th, 2005 | 10 year anniversary of torpid.com, but nobody noticed until April 1st, 2006. |
| May 31st, 2010 | torpid.com back online after long outage. |