A Tintinologist timeline
- 1995
- The Cult of Tintin is established by Australian Tintin fan, Andrew McGee.
- 1996
- McGee retires; Danish computer scientist, Jesper Jühne, takes over. Jühne introduces The Cult of Tintin Discussion List.
- 1998
- Jühne invites Morten Christensen (Denmark) and Irene Mar (Australia) to co-manage the The Cult of Tintin, which is now the world's largest English-based Tintin fan site.
- 2000
- Moulinsart issue a cease and desist letter to Christensen, registrant of the domain name cultoftintin.com. The Cult of Tintin e-group is relocated to Yahoo Groups.
- 2001
- The Cult of Tintin closes for re-development. The domain name cultoftintin.com is lost to a domain squatter.
- 2002
- Jühne and Christensen retire. Irene Mar takes over the management of the site. A new team is formed: Irene Mar (Webmaster), Anders Karlsson (Sweden Correspondent since 1998), Rob Winkels (Holland Correspondent since 1999). Phil Hardaker receives the honorary title of UK Correspondent for his generous donation of free hosting.
- 2003
- The Cult of Tintin re-development site moves to a new host. New domain names registered. The Cult of Tintin's long-time supporter, Richard Wainman (UK), joins the team.
- 2004
- The revamped Cult of Tintin re-opens at Tintinologist.org. Paul Durdin (Australia), Chris Owens (UK), Oliver Battrick (UK), and Etienne Chevalier (Belgium) join the team.
- 2005
- Simon Doyle (UK) joins the team.
- 2006
- Paul Durdin announces his semi-retirement. Ed Adams (UK) joins the team.
- 2009
- In June 2009, the is formed. In addition, a Tintinologist.org Community Page on Facebook is created.
- 2011
- In late November, Edinburgh-based author and illustrator, John Fardell, joins the team.
- 2012
- In early January, the Tintinologist Facebook Group closes, making the Fan Page Tintinologist.org's official presence on the popular social networking service.