About DD-WRT

12. December 2004

DD-WRT was founded
The initial target was just a modification of the original Linksys Firmware for supporting
simple Radius Authentication, But I decided to add some more small tools and fancy things, just for fun.

Anytime in January 2005

Out from the great Response
from our Community, after releasing it to the public, I developed more and more features and started also to redesign the complete
firmware.

January 2006

Started todo some code supporting work for FON

May 2006

Since i was unable to fullfill my dreams within the Blueline-AG i joined the NewMedia-NET GmbH and finally i got the support for bringing
DD-WRT to the next level which wa

september 2006

DD-WRT V23 SP2 was released which seemed our biggest success so far. many people still like it
At this time we started also porting DD-WRT to various Platforms like
Avila Gateworks, X86, FON Fonera and whatever was comming to my dev table. (about 90 different router types so far)

August 2007

We finally got a contract with a main vendor of Wireless Routers. Buffalo decided that they want to work with us together on future wireless platforms.

October 2007

The Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD (EU only) was released by Buffalo with a exlusive DD-WRT Firmware

December 2007

The Buffalo AS-100 (Japan only) was released by Buffalo

May 2008:

Release of v24 final. unlike some rumours, it is activation free for all home or broadcom based routers like in the past.

DD-WRT is:

Sebastian Gottschall (BrainSlayer, founder, maindeveloper)
Christian Scheele (Chris, CEO)
Ales Majdic (Eko, fixing alot)
Sylvain Bothorel (Botho, router webdesign)
Felix Fietkau (nbd/openwrt, madwifi)

and alot of supporters around the world