2004/Jan-Jun/List/Featured Announcements

January

 * January 02 - Happy New Year from Gaia Online
 * January 09 - Donation Errors on January 6 - January 8
 * January 18 - Avatars are back, and so is Gambino
 * January 19 - Paypal error corrected for Jan 17 - Jan 19 donations
 * January 22 - SCAM: Go-gaia Beta DO NOT SIGN UP HERE
 * January 23 - January Item Update!
 * January 25 - Donation Items: Emo Bag [[File:0104-EmoBag.png]] and Chain Wallet [[File:0104-ChainWallet.png]]

February

 * February 04 - February 4th donation problem fixed
 * February 09 - Apology for downtime
 * February 14 - Valentines Day - Barton gets a new store :). Which was Barton Jewelers and its opening marked the introduction of Agatha.
 * February 17 - Gaia First Year Anniversary.
 * February 18 - Gaia became 1 Year Old.
 * February 18 - The First Gaian Anniversary Ball was hosted by Johnny K. Gambino in his first appearance along with his son Gino Gambino.
 * February 19 - Gaia Ball IS CLOSED
 * February 20 - Concerning Trading/Trades
 * February 21  - Donation issues Feb 14 - Feb 20
 * February 24 - Donation Items: ZONY MP3 Player [[File:0204-Zonymp3.png]] and ZONY Discman [[File:0204-Zonydiscman.png]]
 * February 28 - Avatar voting introduced

March

 * March 02 - Graphics server currently under repair
 * March 03 - A note about Gambino's Letter
 * March 03 - Database maintenance tonight
 * March 06 - Store Item Update
 * March 07 - Concerning R0x0rBilly and Punk Items....
 * March 07 - Short emergency maintenance
 * March 09 - More emergency repair and maintenance today
 * March 10 - Sorry for the Critical Errors
 * March 12 - Server maintenance tonight at 2am
 * March 14 - Server maintenance again at 3:30am, PST
 * March 14 - Trouble with www.go-gaia.com
 * March 15 - Donation problem resolved
 * March 15 - Sever down for maintenance at 3:00am
 * March 16 - Donation problems fixed again
 * March 18 - Rollback from 9:00pm to 7:30pm
 * March 18 - Possible downtime at 3:00am PST
 * March 18 - Short downtime at 9:00am PST
 * March 21 - Server downtime at 3:30am
 * March 26 - Donation Items: Baby Seal Slippers [[File:0304-BabySealSlippers.png]] and Fuzzy Penguin Slippers [[File:0304-FuzzyPenguinSlippers.png]]
 * March 30 - Donation letter error ^^
 * March 30 - Donation problem corrected

April

 * April 01 - April Fools 2k4
 * April 01 - Concerning Black Faces...PLUS, How to Remove them.
 * April 11 - Easter event begins 9am PST on Easter Sunday
 * April 20 - Gaia Online switching to gaiaonline.com
 * April 22 - Mail services was down, please re-submit feedback messages
 * April 25 - Donation Items: Hammi Hat [[File:0404-HammiHat.png]] and Bammi Hat [[File:0404-BammiHat.png]]
 * April 28 - April Items Update ^^
 * April 30 - Gaia is changing its URL to gaiaonline.com - (Go-Gaia became Gaia Online)

May

 * May 03 - Server outage today
 * May 04 - Avatars now working again
 * May 09 - Avatar server down
 * May 12 - Vending System Now Online
 * May 13 - Sneak Peak of New Town
 * May 13 - Gino Gambino turned sixteen
 * May 15 - New Town: Durem Update - Introducing Moira (Durem Depot) and Edmund (H.R. Wesley).
 * May 17 - SuperStar Helmet fixed
 * May 20 - Dürem Salon now open ^^ - It was now possible for Gaians to change hairstyles conveniently without deleting their current avatar. This also marks the introduction of Vanessa.
 * May 21 - Rare Items Update
 * May 21 - Sellback value of items has been updated
 * May 21 - Rare Items Updated
 * May 23 - A note to all Opera users
 * May 25 - Donation Items: Bear Pajamas [[File:0504-BearPajamas.png]] and Monkey Pajamas [[File:0504-MonkeyPajamas.png]]
 * May 27 - New feature on donation item. (see above) This marks the beginning of Donation/Monthly items having more than one equip option.
 * May 31 - Thank you for coming to Fanime! ^^

June

 * June 06 - System maintenance for 1 hour
 * June 09 - Archiving system now active
 * June 10 - Durem Salon FAQ
 * June 16 - System downtime and site renewal
 * June 21 - Server Maintenance Tonight at 3:00am PST - Gaia would be down for maintenance on June 22, 3:00am PST. Services should have resumed at around 4:00am, PST.
 * June 22 - Apologies for today's downtime. - The database had to go through an optimization that morning. The process started at 1:00am but due to the large size of the database the process was not finished until 6:45pm in the afternoon.
 * June 23 - Items/Hairstyles Update. Two new clothing sets and two new hairstyles had been added.
 * June 24 - Donation Items: Angelic Pendant [[File:0604-AngelicPendant.png]] and Horns of the Demon [[File:0604-HornsoftheDemon.png]]
 * June 26 - New layout is here! Please restart your browser.
 * June 29 - Testing load balancer. For better performance, and in order to keep a consistent URL for all the forum pages around the site, a load balancer was installed.