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What's the significance of December 8, 2005 7:46:43 AM?
by kylec 18y ago
What's the significance of December 8, 2005 7:46:43 AM?
- gwniobombux 18y agoThat seems to be the time reddit.com went live. Compare this Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/dec/08/innovations.guardianweeklytechnologysection1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/dec/08/innovations...
- pg 18y agoActually reddit was launched before that, but the initial ranking algorithm didn't have enough force to pull popular stories back down. Dec 05 is probably around when they switched to the current ranking algorithm.
- wallflower 18y agoAh magic numbers; It's no CAFEBABE though. Most likely the time Reddit was relaunched after the Lisp to Python rewrite (Aaron's blog post) http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit