The Reddit I'm thinking of with multiple Lisp programming posts on the front page is older than the /r/jailbait Reddit. It's the Reddit that didn't have subreddits yet. I think I first became aware of it when Paul Graham gushed about it in 2005. Like, "the front page of the internet" has been something between a joke and an empty slogan for very long now, but in 2005 that actually made sense, and Reddit did get established as the main option for an open, vote-based non-topic-restricted link aggregator like that very early. Digg.com was an earlier incumbent, but then there was the 2007 shakeup where Digg censored frontpage posts about people discovering how to crack BluRay encryption and Reddit didn't, and Reddit got established as the cool site and Digg started spiraling into obscurity.
I'm less clear on what the early history of porn on Reddit was. Subreddit creation opened up in 2008 and the jailbait controversy started up in 2011, so it went pretty fast once you could have porn subreddits. But how porny was the pre-subreddit era?
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The Reddit I'm thinking of with multiple Lisp programming posts on the front page is older than the /r/jailbait Reddit. It's the Reddit that didn't have subreddits yet. I think I first became aware of it when Paul Graham gushed about it in 2005. Like, "the front page of the internet" has been something between a joke and an empty slogan for very long now, but in 2005 that actually made sense, and Reddit did get established as the main option for an open, vote-based non-topic-restricted link aggregator like that very early. Digg.com was an earlier incumbent, but then there was the 2007 shakeup where Digg censored frontpage posts about people discovering how to crack BluRay encryption and Reddit didn't, and Reddit got established as the cool site and Digg started spiraling into obscurity.
I'm less clear on what the early history of porn on Reddit was. Subreddit creation opened up in 2008 and the jailbait controversy started up in 2011, so it went pretty fast once you could have porn subreddits. But how porny was the pre-subreddit era?
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