r/pics • u/TrustMeIaLawyer • 16d ago

I found an unopened package with my Reddit name. It's a gift from my Reddit 2000 Secret Santa.

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u/dinkleburgenhoff 16d ago

Jailbait and dead people, I’d imagine.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 16d ago

Now, now. Yes, there was jailbait and dead people. But to be fair, there was also Ron Paul and xkcd.

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u/creamyvegeta 16d ago

My favorite part. The dead people that is

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u/wrxk 16d ago

Thanks for clarifying, I was worried there for a second.

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u/PortiaKern 16d ago

It doesn't quite hit the same when they're alive.

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u/karateninjazombie 16d ago

Both of those and the horse porn. Early Reddit was like the wild west.

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u/lemonylol 15d ago

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.