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To be fair I think Reddit predates "web 2.0" by a big gap. Which is probably why they were successful; they did it before everyone else.

• detaro 3y ago
  they didn't predate it. Reddit was founded when "web 2.0" was the hot new buzzword.
  • keyle 3y ago
    My bad, thanks for the correction.
    • etherealG 3y ago
      Would you mind correcting your first comment please? It’s not a big deal but sometimes people stop reading deeper and they might continue to believe your mistake and misunderstand the history.
• fknorangesite 3y ago
  > The term was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999[3] and later popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the first Web 2.0 Conference in 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Reddit was launched in 2005 (which I admit is a year or two earlier than I remember/would have guessed).
  • JJMcJ 3y ago
    I think 2004 is when the concept really gained currency.
• ric2b 3y ago
  So no one remembers Digg anymore, and how Reddit initially grew because Digg was pissing off its own community.