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  • 8 January 2006. Applied Mechanics News (AMN), the forerunner of iMechanica, was launched as a blog of news and views of interest to the international community of Applied Mechanics. AMN was powered by Blogger, a free blogging engine provided by Google. The first entry of AMN was titled Kyung-Suk Kim won Ho-Am Prize of $200,000.
  • Early May 2006. Lesley Lam installed Drupal, an open-source content management system, on a server at Harvard University. She is user number 1 of iMechanica.  Teng Li added and tested two modules:  Image and TinyMCE.
  • 9 September 2006. After a week of intense testing by a small group of users, chiefly Zhigang Suo, Teng Li, Xi Chen, Rui Huang, Zhen Zhang, Ting Zhu, iMechanica went "officially" online on Saturday, when an announcement was posted on AMN. The initial offering of iMechanica includes a blog for every registered user, and a site-wide forum to answer frequently asked questions. Featured in the headers are the following channels: research, education, mechanicians, opinions, industries, conferences, jobs, tips. In the small hours of the day, Teng and Zhigang, connected through skype, posted a set of notes, including one titled "Why should you post in iMechanica?" These notes were later incorporated into About iMechanica.
  • 16 September 2006. Pradeep Sharma posted "Journal Club: Response/Feedback requested". The post has received 50 replies and 1480 reads.
  • 30 October 2006. At the suggestion of Eloy Villanueva, a tab "FAQ" is added to the right side of iMechanica. Eloy is a Harvard undergraduate with concentration in mechanical engineering. He is employee number 1 of iMechanica.
  • 11 November 2006. A new channel, classics, is added to the header.
  • 20 November 2006. At request of John Dolbow, a Computational Mechanics Forum was added, along with a few other forums. The old forum was set as a default, and renamed as Ask iMechanica, after an early post by Teng Li. An initial question in the Computational Mechanics Forum, "What is the status of open source finite element code," has received 43 replies and 1686 reads.
  • 24 November 2006. The Mechanics Education Forum is created.
  • 11 December 2006. Discussions on the Journal Club morph into operating notes of the Journal Club. The Journal Club Forum is created, and a tab "Journal Club" is added to the right side of iMechanica. The first theme of the month is due out in January 2007, with Michelle Oyen as the discussion leader.
  • 16 December 2006. A new channel, videos, is added to the header.
  • 18 December 2006. iMechanica turns 100-day old, and has 619 registered users.
  • 10 January 2007. At a suggestion of Ben Pu, a module of related links is added. The number of registered users reaches 800.
  • 3 February 2007. The number of registered users reaches 1000.
  • 16 February 2007.  Chun Lu discovered that iMechanica also support Chinese, which let to a brief post for the Chinese New Year.
  • 21 February 2007.  At a suggestion of Michael Suo, a module of RSS feeds for comments is added.

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