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| || || "Tumblr was founded by David Karp in 2007 as a method for people to post “tumblelogs” — essentially short-form blogs — featuring links, short paragraphs and a stream of consciousness style. It rapidly grew a wild and fractious user base, split into dozens if not hundreds of communities united by niche interests."<ref name="8 Insane Moments on Tumblr That Will Go Down in History"/>
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| 2009 || Rise to popularity || Tumblr releases its first app “tumblrette” with which app users have the freedom to post to their blog whenever they want. This is considered the start of tumblr becoming very popular.<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/>|-| 2013 || Acquisition || Acquired by Yahoo
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| 2008 || Late || || "Karp did sell 25% of his one-year-old company as part of a $4.5m funding round from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital in late 2008."<ref name="theguardian.com">{{cite web |last1=Halliday |first1=Josh |title=David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/29/tumblr-david-karp-interview |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=13 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2009 || February || || "In February 2009, tumblr released Tumblr releases its first app “tumblrette.” With this “tumblrette” with which app users had have the freedom to post to their blog whenever they wantedwant. This was the start of tumblr becoming very popular."<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/>
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| 2009 || July || Growth || "In July of 2009, tumblr was receiving Tumblr receives over 50 million views a month. Their was The site reports 6 posts every second and 2 reblogs for every second and a half. Every day tumblr was receiving receives 5,000 new users and they had have 9 book deals."<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/>
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| 2009 || || || ". In 2009, Molina was hired as Twitter's 20th engineer and continues to work there. "<ref name="These Screengrabs Show David Karp Did NOT Invent The 'Tumblelog' That Gave Birth To Tumblr"/>
| 2011 || January || || Tumblr reaches more than 7 million individual blogs.<ref name="mashable.com">{{cite web |title=Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com |url=https://mashable.com/2011/06/15/tumblr-surpasses-wordpress/ |website=mashable.com |accessdate=22 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || Mid-year || Financial || Tumblr secures {{w|venture capital }} worth over $40 million.<ref name="A History of Tumblrd"/>
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| 2011 || June || Competition || Tumblr counts 20,873,182 blogs, surpassing WordPress.com by about 85,000.<ref name="mashable.com"/>
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| 2012 || || || "There are plenty of shipping battles and canon wars, but the 100% best Homestuck-related Tumblr post came in 2012, when a user shared a story from Anime Expo that will blow your mind."<ref name="8 Insane Moments on Tumblr That Will Go Down in History"/>
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| 2012 || Year round || Financial || Tumblr makes about US$13 million in revenue in the year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Source: Tumblr Made Even Less Money Than Reported Last Year |url=http://valleywag.gawker.com/source-tumblr-made-even-less-money-than-reported-last-508851058 |website=valleywag.gawker.com/ |accessdate=22 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || May || || "In may of 2013, tumblr was purchased by the Yahoo! ceo Marissa Mayer. At this time tumblr was receiving 100 million users a day with 90 million posts to follow. Mayer scored tumblr for $1.1 billion cash and her first words were “we promise not to screw it up.”"<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/> ". The site was acquired by Yahoo in 2013 and declined along with the rest of that corporate entity, and is now owned by Verizon’s Oath division. But in its prime, Tumblr was a hotbed for Weird Internet, generating unforgettable memes, crazy stories, and legendary posts. Here are some of the most notorious. Thanks to tumblr memedocumentation and Twitter user 3liza for research help."<ref name="8 Insane Moments on Tumblr That Will Go Down in History"/>
