16 February 2007.Chun Lu discovered that iMechanica also support Chinese, which let to a brief post for the Chinese New Year. Chun Lu also arranged Zhigang Suo to give a tutorial of iMechanica at the Institute of High Performance Computing of Singapore.
20 November 2006. At a request of John Dolbow, a Computational Mechanics Forum was added, along with a few other forums. The old forum was set as a default, and renamed as Ask iMechanica, after an early post by Teng Li.
11 November 2006. A new channel, classics, is added to the header.
30 October 2006. At a suggestion of Eloy Villanueva, a tab "FAQ" is added to the right side of iMechanica. Eloy is a Harvard undergraduate with concentration in mechanical engineering. He is employee number 1 of iMechanica.
9 September 2006, Saturday.The Launch Day. After a week of intense testing by a small group of users, chiefly Zhigang Suo, Teng Li, Xi Chen, Rui Huang, Zhen Zhang, Ting Zhu, iMechanica went "officially" online, when an announcement was posted on AMN. The initial offering of iMechanica includes a blog for every registered user, and a site-wide forum to answer frequently asked questions. Featured in the headers are the following channels: research, education, mechanicians, opinions, industries, conferences, jobs, tips. In the small hours of the day, Teng and Zhigang, connected through skype, posted a set of notes, including one titled "Why should you post in iMechanica?" These notes were later incorporated into About iMechanica.
Early May 2006.Lesley Lam installed Drupal, an open-source content management system, on a server at Harvard University. She is user number 1 of iMechanica. Teng Li added and tested two modules: Image and TinyMCE.
8 January 2006. Applied Mechanics News (AMN), the forerunner of iMechanica, was launched as a blog of news and views of interest to the international community of Applied Mechanics. AMN was powered by Blogger, a free blogging engine provided by Google. The first entry of AMN was titled Kyung-Suk Kim won Ho-Am Prize of $200,000.