(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Hello, welcome to my thread to show you the history of every jailbreaking program EVER released. Read on to find jailbreaks for 1.0 firmware, and all the way up to the iOS5.0b7 firmware! Please do be patient, as I will be constantly be updating this thread until it is complete.

iBrickr
iBrickr was released in July 2007, and was not really a jailbreak, but a program for Windows OS to put custom ringtones on your iPhone 2nd Gen. It was developed by Nate True.
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JailbreakMe 1.0
JailbreakMe 1.0 was released in October 2007, and was the first browser-based jailbreak. It's jailbreaking purpose was for 1.0-1.1.1 firmwares on the original iPhone and iPod touch, and was an Untethered jailbreak. It was published by the iPhone Dev Team, the creator of most jailbreak programs today.
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Soft Upgrade
Soft Upgrade was another program released by Nate True, and was released in December 2007. It allowed users to upgrade from their untethered 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbreak on an iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G to an untethered 1.1.3 jailbreak. This was actually a downloadable package from Cydia at the time, and it may be possible to still find it.
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ZiPhone
ZiPhone was released in the beginning of February 2008. This allowed for an untethered jailbreak on iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G running on any firmware between 1.1.2 and 1.1.5, and was released by Zibri. This was ZiBri's one and only jailbreaking program.
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PwnageTool 1.1.4
This was a Mac OSX-only jailbreak release, which came out in March 2008. This tool was created by the iPhone Dev Team, and was meant for jailbreaking firmwares 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 on the original iPhone and iPod Touch.
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PwnageTool 2.0
Also a Mac OSK-only jailbreaking program, this was released later in 2008, on July 19th. This was able to jailbreak the firmwares 2.0 to 2.0.2 on the iPhone 2G and 3G, and also the iPod Touch 1G. Once again, this was released by the iPhone Dev Team.

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QuickPwn
Released in August 2008, this was the first tri-OS jailbreaking program (Had version for Windows, Mac OS and Linux). This jailbroke any iPhone 2G, 3G or iPod Touch 1G on 2.0 to 2.2.1. Once again, this was released by the iPhone Dev Team.

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PwnageTool 2.2
This program was released on November 21st, 2008. This one had not much new from 2.0, except from the fact that it jailbroke 2.2 and 2.2.1 firmwares. The GUI was exactly the same as it's predecessor, as well as it's publisher.

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More will be added tomorrow, I just figured I should get this thread started. Please to leave positive feedback, and some nice criticism to tell me where I may have done wrong and should improve. Please note that by sharing these programs I am in no way claiming them to be created by me. Most jailbreaks in any versions of iOS before 4.0 I list will only be untethered jailbreaks. Also, certain jailbreaks (the 5.0 jailbreaks) ARE untethered only on the iPhone 3GS with the OLD bootrom.

Looks good, always nice to reflect on history

Nice little history. I'm glad that jailbreaking phones is legal.

Hey look, I got some replies =D Thanks, will add more soon

Great post. I'll probably nominate when the thread is finished

Nice little info, you should add how apple added updates to stop Jailbreaking, how jailbreaking became legal, when it became legal, etc. I'll definetly look at this thread again tommorow, gj