Here is the history as far as I’ve seen it:
- 2005 June 23 – Ma.La releases the Google Auto Pager greasemonkey script.
- 2005 June 28 – Bill Scott releases Rico LiveGrid and writes “Death To Paging!”
- 2006 April 25 – Humanized Reader launches with “Infinite History”
- 2006 September 14(ish) – Yahoo Mail (beta) utilizes the same LiveGrid technology
- 2006 September 17 – Microsoft’s Live.com Image Search includes infinite scroll.
- 2006 October 31 – Peter Forde writes Endless Pageless and releases a Rails plugin
- 2007 April 17 – swdyh releases AutoPagerize greasemonkey script, enabling infinite scroll for nearly every site.
- 2008 June 29 – infinite-scroll.com debuts with initial release of wordpress plugin
* Google Reader uses the same preloading LiveGrid technology. Anyone know when this debuted?