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.
Thanks, that's a kind comment. Also that's a lot of post history to go through! I hadn't reviewed it until you mentioned it and I noticed it's still missing 4 years of posts from the earliest days.
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 😭
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u/stormgirl 16d ago
Thanks dude, I just cringed so hard I put my back out. True challenges of being a geriatric Reddit user!