CurseForge

CurseForge is a website hosted and owned by Curse, Inc. It hosts customization, mods, modpacks, texture packs, worlds and add-ons for Minecraft, as well as third-party content for other games.

History
The earliest archived version of CurseForge was taken in late 2007. Then, it just linked to various World of Warcraft advertisements, since the URL was reserved by GoDaddy. In 2008 it was taken by Curse, Inc., as a repository of World of Warcraft addons. The repository was imported from curse.com. The website was also paired with a CurseClient, which helped install addons. The CurseClient would be the predecessor to CurseVoice, which was renamed to the Twitch Desktop App after Curse, Inc. was bought by Twitch.tv.

CurseForge was originally oriented to addon developers rather than users, while curse.com was oriented towards the general public. Besides from World Of Warcraft, CurseForge expanded to Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Age of Conan, and Runes of Magic, with the potential for other games. In mid-2011, CurseForge started hosting Minecraft content.

First projects

 * First Bukkit plugin (or "server mod," as it was originally called): Heroes by LordKainzo, created on August 3rd, 2011
 * First mod: Invinci-Dogs by an unknown user, created on August 25th, 2011 for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3
 * First texture pack: Pocok's texture pack by a user likely named Pocok, created on September 3rd, 2011
 * First world: Texture Pack Viewer by Pluto_mcpvp, created on January 29th, 2013
 * First modpack: Aesthetic Construction by jadedcat, created on October 23rd, 2014
 * First customization: LUCKY BLOCK BROWN MOD by a user likely named Josh7506EI, created on February 21st, 2015
 * First addon: Castle Siege by an unknown user, created on October 21, 2016