character.ai is a project that has been planned ever since 2017.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170226213633/http://character.ai/This was the first instance in which the website had been reserved for future usage, they held that website up until 28 November 2021, during which the current dev team brought the website for themselves and started hiring.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211128012456/https://www.character.ai/https://web.archive.org/web/20220109051506/https://www.character.ai/The website now has a look to it, even if barebones, and even a logo.A small dev team now hiring but that's where they began putting their team together.
Around February, they finally changed the founding team to a team, in which Romal joined. There are some links associated to their names that were lost in time, including a github (something along the lines of wanbello? better do some scavenging through archives yourselves to know more) which I sadly couldn't decipher, maybe someone else with better tech know-how can.
May of 2022 is when Greg and Sam join in, around that time they hid the github link from their profiles. The stupid logo of pic related is also gone, replaced with some default powerpoint crap background.
Igor joins the team around July, around the same time they get their shit together and start shilling their LinkedIn instead. The stupid logo makes a comeback around August, and with it comes Bowen.
And September is when the beta finally opens, the UI is a little different and even better with much smaller icons, it's only downhill from there with the changes since now there is geriatric support with how big it is in comparison, seriously look at this bullshit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220918045147/https://beta.character.ai/>why'd you skim through archives over it, anon?Boredom, wanting to see how they progressed where they are, clues on when things would start fucking up, I guess. There has to be more to research from this, maybe. But knowing a little about how it all came to be can help, I guess. Call it autism but I guess I just got bored.
