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Really seems like from this and from other things I've read that Reddit was either PG's idea or was very heavily inspired by him. That true PG?
by mattculbreth 19y ago
Really seems like from this and from other things I've read that Reddit was either PG's idea or was very heavily inspired by him. That true PG?
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- kn0thing 19y agoYes, as I mentioned above, we left that conversation with PG thinking about how we could build a destination for all the best & freshest content online. The catchy slogan (front page of the web) was pure PG. But how the actual site would function came about while Steve and I toiled in our Medford apartment. Perhaps the biggest inspiration was actually del.icio.us/popular -- we thought that site (albeit a byproduct of the actual site) was on to something. We really had never heard of digg until we'd already been online for a month and change, but by then reddit had already developed a unique identity. I believe that ignorance turned out to be quite an advantage. We just tried to build the best site we could.
- mattculbreth 19y agoYep, and it's still my #1 place for surfing, nice work.