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Man, I feel old when Imgur, a yesterday's establishment from my point of view, can be considered a ’first‘ of anything. While I also believe Slashdot to be the
by zirkonit 8y ago
Man, I feel old when Imgur, a yesterday's establishment from my point of view, can be considered a ’first‘ of anything.
While I also believe Slashdot to be the first one (it certainly is the first one to use the _term_ ’karma‘), some two other early communities to check for prior art are Kuro5hin and Advogato.
- tCfD 8y agoKuro5hin was built by Rusty on slashdot's codebase so I don't think it could have been prior
- jki275 8y agoOh man I haven't heard of Kuro5hin in years. I actually deleted my account there when I got doxed years ago.
- chatmasta 8y agoAnyone remember imageshack.us? Apparently it's still around [0] as a subscription service [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageShack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageShack [1] http://imageshack.us/ http://imageshack.us/
- gitgud 8y agoI meant to add that those sites were just examples, I assumed it had been done before Imgur. Slashdot seemed like a cool site back in the day...