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Reddit was released to the world by a link on paulgraham.com. It had an impact on the initial user census. It took a while for all the cat picture morons to t

• davidw 13y ago
  Exactly - that's how I found reddit, back in the day. First it was mostly hacking, startups, and some libertarian politics. Then there started to be more politics, and less hacking and startups. And more "outrage stories". And it went downhill fast enough that PG started Hacker News. That's one of the reasons I loathe the political stories so much - they build a momentum of their own and wreck sites like this one. Interestingly enough, you can see PG helping to get reddit off the ground: https://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com... "bugbear" is PG. Edit, I think it was through this essay: http://www.reddit.com/comments/20775 http://www.reddit.com/comments/20775