The website was created on 5 March 2002 by four former HSC students who had completed their HSC in the previous year: Mark Czajkowski, James King, Tim Cheng and Ian Keong.[2] Regarded as the successor to the popular "hscboardz" and "uniboardz" forums and the "hscstuff.cjb.net"[3] resource library, the site's founders claim that because they were the first to sit a newly revised HSC syllabus, they were able to clearly see the lack of information that future HSC students would face. A desire to help address this lack of information was a prime reason behind the founding of Bored of Studies.[4] The site is owned and operated by iStudy Australia Pty Ltd, based in the Sydney CBD.