The REAL Portal/Half-Life Timeline

[The Doctor]

Cave Johnson era
In 1947, Aperture Fixtures was founded by Cave Johnson as a shower curtain manufacturer (The name "Aperture Fixtures" was chosen "to make the curtains appear more hygienic".)

In 1956, the Eisenhower administration signs a contract with Aperture to manufacture shower curtains to all branches of the US Military, except the Navy.

From 1957 to 1973, the company produced mostly shower curtains and enjoyed a great deal of success, making Cave Johnson a billionaire. Until 1973, Aperture also used a bulletin board system.

During this time, early work on the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device began; the early version, called the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, proved to be too bulky for effective use, while poor surface conductors for the portals often caused mangling or death of the test subjects when they tried to use the portals.Repulsion Gel was first developed around this time as well for use as a diet suppliment. At first only the brightest and best of society were chosen for testing, but after being connected to a string of astronaut disappearances in 1968, Aperture Science focused on recruiting homeless people for testing, starting in 1976. Cave suspects Black Mesa of industrial espionage on the company's products, and blames them for Aperture's bankruptcy. (Propulsion Gel was released around this time too.)

By 1981, Cave Johnson was exposed to toxic Conversion Gel, made out of ground-up moon rocks. He dies of moon-rock poisoning sometime during the 1980s.

Post-Cave Johnson era
In 1981, Aperture engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives. The company announces products related to the research in a televised ceremony. Unsurprisingly, these products become immediately, wildly unpopular. After a string of highly publicized choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on Tier 3, the "man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space, with possible applications as a shower curtain." The committee is quickly permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to secretly continue research on the 'Portal' and Heimlich Counter-Maneuver projects.

From 1981 to 1985, work progresses on the 'Portal' project. During this time, several high ranking Fatah personnel choke to death on lamb chunks despite the intervention of their bodyguards,showing that the US government has apparently put the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver to work.

As far as 1982, the Enrichment Center, where Test Subjects undergo tests, is functioning, as the Enrichment Center Test Subject Application Process, a 50-question questionnaire destined for applying Test Subject, is already used at that time. It is unknown if the Enrichment Center is already "computer-aided" in 1982, as scientists have been known to supervise Test Subjects from small offices until an undetermined date. The Enrichment Center Test Subject Application is operated by version 1.07 of GLaDOS, later "1.07a" and "1.09".

In 1985, the Aperture Image Format is created.

In 1985, the Aperture Image Format is maintained by Doug Rattmann.

In 1986, word reaches Aperture Science management that Black Mesa is working on a similar portal technology. In response to this news, Aperture Science begins developing GLaDOS.

In 1996, after a decade spent bringing the Disk Operating System parts of GLaDOS to a state of more or less basic functionality, work begins on the Genetic Lifeform component. During that time, the Aperture Science Red Phone plan is implemented in case GLaDOS appears to become sentient and godlike, requiring an employee to sit by a red phone on a desk in GLaDOS chamber's entrance hall.

In 1997, GLaDOS' version is 3.11.

In 1998, Aperture releases other testing elements, such as the Excursion Funnel, a tractor beam-like funnel made of liquid asbestos, the Thermal Discouragement Beam, a laser to be used with a Weighted Pivot Cube to destroy Sentry Guns and activate some buttons, the Aerial Faith Plate, a catapult plate flinging into the air Test Subjects or any other object upon contact, and the Pneumatic Diversity Vent, a variant of the Vital Apparatus Vent used for distributing objects to Test Chambers.

In May 1998, the untested AI of GLaDOS is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. Upon being activated, she almost instantly becomes self-aware, takes control of the facility, locks everyone inside, floods the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, but is partially halted when she is quickly fitted with a Morality Core. She then begins a permanent cycle of testing, aimed at beating Black Mesa in the race to develop functioning portal technology. However a few days later, on May 16, the Black Mesa Incident occurs at the Black Mesa Research Facility, allowing aliens to teleport from Xen to Earth, eventually leading to the Combine invasion, stopping GLaDOS' race against Black Mesa.

-GLaDOS control

As seen in the hacker message found on ApertureScience.com referring to the lockdown, the remaining employees continue working, as they are said to be working on twenty year old equipment. The construction of an Enrichment Center is also mentioned, suggesting that the Aperture Laboratories house several of them. The number of Aperture Science employees also likely diminishes, until there are only a few of them left. The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is likely already completed at that time, but it is unknown if it is before or after GLaDOS' activation.

During that period, Portal Storms continue to rage on Earth and spread chaos, eventually leading to the Seven Hour War, resulting in Earth being defeated and subsequently controlled by the Combine. Later, around 20 years after GLaDOS' activation, Gordon Freeman is awakened from his stasis by the G-Man, and arrives in City 17, which greatly disturbs the Combine's grasp on Earth.

Portal era
Some time after GLaDOS' takeover of Aperture Laboratories and shortly after the Combine invasion of Earth, the Enrichment Center seems to be long abandoned, and GLaDOS seems to rule it alone, although other people are apparently still trapped somewhere. The scribblings left by Rattmann also seem rather old, showing that the Enrichment Center has been partially abandoned for some time. A calendar named "The girls of Aperture Science", dated 1983, is also worn-out. Chell is awakened in her Relaxation Vault in the Enrichment Center, and is guided as a Test Subject by GLaDOS, utilizing the completed ASHPD, while the A.I. shows signs of instability. When GLaDOS attempts to murder Chell at the end of her tests, she flees through maintenance areas of the Enrichment Center, and eventually seemingly destroys GLaDOS, before being dragged away inside by the Party Escort Bot.

Before her partial destruction, GLaDOS hints to Chell that things have changed since the last time she left the building, and that what is going on out there will make her wish she were back in here. GLaDOS also says she was the only thing standing between them [GLaDOS and Chell] and an undetermined group, most likely the Combine.

Portal 2 era
Portal 2 is set several years after the events of Portal. During that time Aperture Science as it originally was, likely does not exist anymore, as GLaDOS and the Personality Cores took over the partially destroyed facility, where tests are still performed.


Source: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Aperture_Science

[Brainiac]

引用自 The Doctor：

引用自 Superstench123：

lmao

well.... Your that annoying forum spammer that the gods sent right? xD

lmfao

I am

[Brainiac]

Das right... I dragged this onto a third page ;)

[The Doctor]

引用自 Brainiac：

引用自 Superstench123：

game theory is a dumb butt.

Game theory is a correct butt

False. His Portal Companion Cube Theory was flawed.
His undertale theory was flawed
Some of his other theories might be flawed too...

[Brainiac]

引用自 The Doctor：

引用自 Brainiac：

Game theory is a correct butt

False. His Portal Companion Cube Theory was flawed.
His undertale theory was flawed
Some of his other theories might be flawed too...

Maybe your theory about my flawed theory about his not-flawed theory is flawed. Which Doctor are you supposed to be, anyway?

[The Doctor]

引用自 Brainiac：

引用自 The Doctor：

False. His Portal Companion Cube Theory was flawed.
His undertale theory was flawed
Some of his other theories might be flawed too...

Maybe your theory about my flawed theory about his not-flawed theory is flawed. Which Doctor are you supposed to be, anyway?

My favorite doctor is the 11th, Matt Smith, so i avatar myself as him. btw, reasons his portal theory is flawed:
The noise he claims to be calling for help when a companion cube is destroyed doesnt exist, its a sound file that comes from evaporating a RADIO that makes the noise, not the cube, so he lied.
Reason the undertale sans is ness theory is flawed: Why would papyrus (or star man as he says he is) Just happen to accept Ness as his biological brother? They arent related! It wasnt supposed to be canon, it was just a little poke at the earthbound franchaise

[Donself]

i havent played any portal games or half life game, i played portal a few days ago and now i want to play all of them

[Khorps]

引用自 Superstench123：

引用自 Khorps：

Portal 2 was set several thousand years after Portal*

Um... how the heck is that logical? THOUSANDS OF YEARS... think about that, think of sleepng for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, the lonest logical time would be 20 years.

wow, do you know what kind of technology aperture has? let alone us in present day right now. we already have cryogenic sleep and the half-life universe' technology is one step ahead they could put someone in cryogenic sleep for over a 100 years and the subject wouldn't notice

[Khorps]

引用自 Superstench123：

引用自 Khorps：

Portal 2 was set several thousand years after Portal*

Um... how the heck is that logical? THOUSANDS OF YEARS... think about that, think of sleepng for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, the lonest logical time would be 20 years.

also, how on Earth would an entire wing of the facility become over-grown, abandoned and broken, what about the framework and tiles all rusted away? also you can't seriously expect me to believe birds could get into the facility as easily as they did if it was 20 years

[Khorps]

引用自 Brainiac：

引用自 The Doctor：

well.... Your that annoying forum spammer that the gods sent right? xD

lmfao

I am

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, look at my post history, then look at yours

[The Doctor]

引用自 Geralt of Freakin Rivia：

i havent played any portal games or half life game, i played portal a few days ago and now i want to play all of them

Well ill tell you one thing. 100% WORTH IT! The story is so rich and so intreguing (that is, if you understand why things are happening)

[The Doctor]

引用自 Khorps：

引用自 Superstench123：

Um... how the heck is that logical? THOUSANDS OF YEARS... think about that, think of sleepng for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, the lonest logical time would be 20 years.

also, how on Earth would an entire wing of the facility become over-grown, abandoned and broken, what about the framework and tiles all rusted away? also you can't seriously expect me to believe birds could get into the facility as easily as they did if it was 20 years

You never really know though... Its that one mystery of the franchaise that can never be explained 100% properly

[Khorps]

引用自 The Doctor：

引用自 Khorps：

also, how on Earth would an entire wing of the facility become over-grown, abandoned and broken, what about the framework and tiles all rusted away? also you can't seriously expect me to believe birds could get into the facility as easily as they did if it was 20 years

You never really know though... Its that one mystery of the franchaise that can never be explained 100% properly

it can be explained properly, now stuff involving the borealis cant as much but the time between portal 1 and 2 is a pretty easy one

[The Doctor]

引用自 Khorps：

引用自 The Doctor：

You never really know though... Its that one mystery of the franchaise that can never be explained 100% properly

it can be explained properly, now stuff involving the borealis cant as much but the time between portal 1 and 2 is a pretty easy one

Well perhaps when hl3 releases in the next 1-2 years we will get some answers

[Khorps]

引用自 The Doctor：

引用自 Khorps：

it can be explained properly, now stuff involving the borealis cant as much but the time between portal 1 and 2 is a pretty easy one

Well perhaps when hl3 releases in the next 1-2 years we will get some answers

for the borealis stuff? maybe

[The Doctor]

引用自 Khorps：

引用自 The Doctor：

Well perhaps when hl3 releases in the next 1-2 years we will get some answers

for the borealis stuff? maybe

well at this point we already know that hl3 is gonna be some portal / halflife crossover. btw some leaks lead us to believe that there will be ziplines that you use with the crowbar :D