When was Roblox created, and what was it called?
So, the question seems simple, "What was Roblox called when it was first being created, and when was it made?"
The most commonly accepted answer is DynaBlocks, or maybe even GoBlocks depending on who you ask.
However, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than you might think.
Let's start where everybody else started, with the Virtual BLOXcon 2013 Live stream. https://youtu.be/spRkstu8QfE?t=980 At this time code we see the following screenshot:
Dynablocks is prominently showed as the logo, and eagle eyed people might have noticed there are some references to "GoBlocks" in the page, and on the title bar, suggesting that it was originally GoBlocks but was changed to DynaBlocks shortly after.
"So that solves it, right? Roblox was originally called GoBlocks?"
Well, not really, it goes even deeper. First, let's continue off with the finding of the Higher Quality screenshot of this page, that was found linked in a corrupted, but complete enough PowerPoint document. There was a PowerPoint document found in the description of one of David Baszucki's recorded presentations on YouTube, found here: https://youtu.be/jrsC-fu8I2w?t=558
In this screenshot we can see a lot more detail and information about years. This screenshot seems to have been taken in January 2004, but it mentions "Copyright 2003 DYNABLOCKS,Inc." Suggesting that DynaBlocks had it's name created in 2003, and that GoBlocks came possibly earlier than that.
"So, the earliest confirmed existence of Roblox is sometime in 2003, and was called GoBlocks?"
We're not quite done yet, hold your horses.
Between July 2003 and October 2003, David Baszucki's personal website listed a project known as "eBlocks" calling it a stealth mode video game company. http://web.archive.org/web/20031010165759/http://www.baszucki.com:80/
"So, what was eBlocks, was that the original name for Roblox? What did it look like?"
Well, I can't say for 100% certainty that eBlocks was Roblox, but considering that Roblox has gone into stealth mode in 2005, it is entirely possible this was it's original name. Unfortunately we have no screenshots or archives of how eBlocks looked.
http://web.archive.org/web/20051126085034/http://www.roblox.com/Login/Stealth.aspx
eblocks.com was registered in 2002, but this doesn't prove anything, as there is no name attached to it's whois lookup, and it doesn't redirect to roblox.com unlike most other Roblox domains.
"So, you're saying that Roblox was created in mid-late 2003, and it had the name eBlocks?"
Yes, yes I am.
Misconceptions
Before we end off this blog post, I would like to debunk a few misconceptions about Roblox's name choices over the years. It appears the Roblox team was brainstorming many different ideas for what would be the Roblox name, buying domains that matched. Most of these domains redirect to roblox.com today. One of these domains is http://goblox.com
If we go to the Wayback Machine and look up goblox.com, we find a really old archive from October of 2002, however that is NOT a domain from Roblox (at least at that time), if we go forward a year to December 2003, it mentions that the domain was registered, implying that Roblox might have bought it around then.
One more thing I would like to mention is that, from what I've seen, there was never a real GoBlocks logo that was ever created or shown online, there is one recreation that I commonly find, but its not real.