History of the Portal

Revision as of 17:56, 3 March 2020 by Aardvark (talk | contribs) (→‎2019: Fixed linking for Episode 2)

The intention of this page is to consolidate a list of important events surrounding the Portal, the associated Discord server and this wiki.

Categories

  • Blue: Events related to the podcast, "The Portal".
  • Green: Events related to "The Portal - Unofficial Discord"
  • Red: Real world events related to the Portal.

Notable Portal-relevant Events

2019

  • 6/24/2019 - "The Portal" podcast is launched on iTunes, Spotify, and several other podcasts.
  • 7/19/2019 - [[2: What Is The Portal?

|The Portal Episode 02: What Is The Portal?]] is released.

2020

  • 1/27/2020 - Eric Weinstein creates a "women-of-the-portal" channel on the Discord channel with the intent of addressing why disproportionately few women are currently involved with the project: "Don't know how to solve the problem or even if there is one. Maybe there isn't!" Both the existence of this channel and its nature and purpose are much debated over the next few days.
  • 2/5/2020 - Several channels on the Discord server are marked to-be-deleted, including the 'women-of-the-portal' channel, which was deemed not to have worked out.