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Wow, thank you for sharing this. Reddit was indeed just like HN. https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com:80/top?t=all https://web.archive.

• ShredKazoo 4y ago
  The top submission actually ends up being a surprisingly good guide to what was going on with the internet circa 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20060313005123/http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060313005123/http://www.paulgr... An interesting point is that the non-techies who initially used the internet socially were mostly teens and young adults on sites like MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc. (and IM services like AIM -- essentially like Google Chat) If you want to see what MySpace was, I suppose tagged.com is the nearest modern equivalent?