- March 1988
- First Straum code written. Straum was the beginning of Hive's software base, before the TTT applications, semantic descriptions, and shadow architecture.
- May 1998
- First mobile agents running between servers
- August 1998
- Nelson's master's thesis on Straum submitted.
- September 1998
- Matthew and Oliver join project, Straum gets repurposed to be a toolkit for TTT
- October 1998
- First large-scale Hive system run inside the Media Lab, as part of the TTT open house. 5 computers with roughly 40 agents. The system mostly worked fine, although the UI died occasionally.
- October 1998
- Raffi Krikorian joins the project
- January 1999
- First internal Hive release: 167 files, 15000 lines
- March 1999
- Other groups in the Media Lab use Hive for their projects, larger networked system runs involving lots of people's agents.
- March 1999
- 199 files, 20000 lines of code
- May 1999
- Matthew and Oliver submit their master's theses
- June 1999
- 219 files, 24000 lines of code
- June 1999
- Orton and Tucker join the project
- October 1999
- First public release of the Hive software!
- October 1999
- First Hive publication presented at ASA/MA
