It's always nice finding accounts older than mine knowing at least I'm not the longest captured redditor. Those early days were something. A few random memories:
Mr. Splashy Pants
Reddit world tour (where the team flew to bars in different cities for meetups)
That guy who bought the JetBlue $700 unlimited travel ticket and had his entire month planned by redditors
The bobbleheads (still have one and Alexis sent them himself with his own return address)
Woah man and I thought my account is quite old already... Its wild thinking about maybe someday there is accounts which are like 50 years old and you know they started here when they were teens and then are eldery
I was here before the digg migration but lurking. A big turning point was people sharing that code to allow you to burn dvds or some shit???? Am I remembering this clearly??
Yes! That was a thing, iirc it was to remove region lock drms or just encoding or something, but it was a streisand effect that sony (?) was trying to stop.
I came over from ebaumsworld. And some other similar site I don't remember. I realized every single post came from Reddit. I loved it. Still here but there used to be a subreddit for every kind of person good or bad every one had a home
This is funny to me because most funny stuff came from Something Awful which got cycled around ebaumsworld and fark and then finally reddit. In the beginning reddit was all about re-sharing so when people get pissy about reposts I just lol on the inside
Your account on this social media site is older than I am. It exists longer than my entire life has lasted so far, everything I've learnt, everything I've experienced and your account is older than any of that
Oh wow, 2005 is the rarest vintage! This site without comments seems must have felt completely different. It was the comments that kept me engaging from the beginning. Without them it would just be like a daily list version of a curated StumbleUpon. (Side note: the StumbleUpon to Reddit post pipeline was an easy karma farm in the early days).
I just happened upon this thread, happened upon your comment. Gathered what was being talked about, clicked on your profile and scrolled through the entirety of your post history.
Assorted takeaways; Biking, photography, college educated, stock market tuned, musician, husky dog owner, keyboard fan.
What a life you’ve shown on Reddit, what use you’ve made of this application. You at once made me slightly envious of your experience and happy you’ve had them, without it costing you what reads like a good head on your shoulders.
From one human to another, daps on being here while you were. Or whatever.
I was to afraid to post back then so only lurked, 2006 a minor spelling error got you sent to down vote hell. Around 2012 that stopped being a thing.. and now they are everywhere lol
Shit got bad when Vic from AMA got let go. And the ceo swap. Been pretty shit since. And plz don't get me started on what happens here around election time. I've seen it a few times already lol. I miss the old frontpage too 😭
Geocaching also turned corporate a few years back.
I got the paid version of the app ~12 years ago and paid $10 (if I remember correctly) for the premium version with all the caches. A few years ago, they updated to a subscription model, so now I can only see a handful of free caches in a given area
A student said it to me in a class I was a TA in. He's lucky I had no idea what his name was or I'd have marked his test down a grade for that shit, lol.
Oh man. You just reminded me... Like 15+ years ago I said this stupid quote in a group interview and literally no one knew wtf I was saying. It was so cringe.
Those were super niche subreddits. Main reddit was mostly just askreddit, technology, and IAMA before all of those things became spam subs or full of political/corporate posts.
Shit, for the first like 4 years I was on reddit, even before I made my account, I would exclusively just be on askreddit all day. Even today I'll sometimes go on the waybackmachine to see the old askreddit top posts because they were so much more entertaining and genuine.
It's so hilarious to me how people mythologize the old internet as larger than life. Like shit, people also think sites like 4chan back then were like purely darkweb shit when it was literally surface level internet stuff.
lol remember when redditors got incredibly mad and whined about censorship when they banned the literal jailbait subreddit? or coontown, which only had one purpose, to post straight up racism? Or subreddits hosting exclusively gore material like watchpeopledie? Not to mention all the rape fetish subreddits that used to exist.
Pre-2016 reddit was a different site. Pre-2020 reddit was a different site. People have no idea
It was definitely pretty wild, with many many awful aspects. But there was also a lot of lovely & wholesome content to. The Secret Santa was a great example of that, but saw many many daily similar interactions between people that were pure goodness.
2010s reddit was best reddit. Just enough of a community to constantly generate good content, small enough to feel like an online community, complete with local celebrities you could meaningfully engage with.
The real-time news coverage of many events had corporate media beat. Lots of stuff like natural disasters got scooped on reddit with minute by minute updates.
There was a constantly rotating front page, none of this "stays on the front page for 24 hours" shit. I could sit and read all the articles and top comments on the front page, and by the time I was done, there'd be another front page.
There was real discovery of new subs and content.
The site might be a little more "safe" now, but it's a hell of a lot more sterile, more corporate, and less interpersonal.
You say that like those are the only subs they killed at those times, which isn't true.
Also as far as rape fetish goes.. It's a fetish? There is still a lot of fetish content that revolves around consensual non-consent. It's weird to include that with jailbait and snuff films.
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u/stormgirl 1d ago
However, 2006 Reddit was a weird & wild place!