2003 was the year when Gaia Online was created.
Events in 2003
February
- February 18 - Gaia is born.
- February 19 - Temporary Server Shutdown at 3AM PST 2/20/03
- February 20 - Server Back Up ^^
- February 20 - Next Updates Info
- February 21 - Solution to SPAM: The Chatterbox is created.
- February 22 - GUILDS Forum has been added.
- February 24 - Not Receiving E-mail Activation?
- Darker Avatar skin tones are added.
March
- March 07 - The First Gaian Annual Ball.
- March 12 - UPDATE 3/12/03
- March 19 - Server upgrade today
- March 20 - Shutdown and rollback announcement: The first Rollback occurs.
- March 25 - Items List and Rare Items System added!: Rare Events are introduced.
- The dressing room is added to Gold Shops.
April
- April 01 - New Gaia Personals
- April 16 - Update Preview!
- April 20 - Easter Egg Hunt event!!! - The first Easter event.
- The trading system is introduced.
- The Exchange Forum is born.
- Random Event: Pink Links are added.
- April 25 - New Items Update 4/25
- April 27 - Server Shutdown Notice
May
- May 01 - Store Update 05/01
- May 19 - UPDATE Coming Soon
- May 20 - GAMBINO UPDATE - Isle de Gambino was added to the World Map, introducing Meredith (Bank of Gambino), Sasha (Gambino Outfitters), Ruby (Gambino Hat Rack) and her son Peyo.
- May 24 - New Feature - Second Chance for rares and glowing links!
- May 24 - Rare Item Price Change
- May 24 - System Upgrade Next Week
- May 24 - Seeking Sponsors and Donations Accepted.
- May 24 - Donation Item: Angelic Halo. - The first donation item released.
- May 27 - Server shutdown notice
- May 30 - New servers online!
- May 31 - Rollback and Server shutdown in one hour
- May 31 - Rollback and rare item restoration explained
June
- June 6 - The Referral System added.
- June 16- A Chatroom was added.
- June 27 - Moderators were (finally) added.
July
- July 11 - The Main page gets its first revamp.
- July 30 - The second donation items, Kodiac Grizzly Bear Hat and Panda Hat, are released in the July 2003 Donation Letters.
- The Avatar Spotlight is added.
August
- August 14 - Subforums are introduced.
- August 14 - Banner ads are added.
- August 25 - The DJ Studio Headphones and Portable Stereo Headphones are released as donation items in the August 2003 Donation Letters.
September
- September 24 - Mini Angel Wings and Mini Nitemare Wings are released as donation items in the September 2003 Donation Letters.
October
- October 7 - Gaia experienced a rollback due to a hardware error.
- October 25 - The Devil Tail and Angelic Sash are released as donation items in the October 2003 Donation Letters.
- October 29 - A Halloween 2k3 layout is temporarily added.
- October 31- Gaia celebrates Halloween with Trick or Treating, introduction of NPC Jack.
November
- November 5 - Name and gender change are activated.
- November 25 - The OMG Hat and AFK Hat are released as donation items in the November 2003 Donation Letters.
- November 29 - Gaia reaches 16.7 million posts (that was the post limit at the time).
December
- December 22 - The Gift Wrapping feature is added.
- December 25 - The Nitemare Scarf and Angelic Scarf are released as donation items in the December 2003 Donation Letters.
- December 25 - The first Christmas Event takes place giving users Jolly Hats and Jolly Slippers.