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0 pointskeyle3y ago0 comments

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.

0 pointskeyle3y ago0 comments

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.

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detaro3y ago· 2 in thread

they didn't predate it. Reddit was founded when "web 2.0" was the hot new buzzword.

keyleOP3y ago

My bad, thanks for the correction.

etherealG3y 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.

fknorangesite3y ago· 1 in thread

> 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

Reddit was launched in 2005 (which I admit is a year or two earlier than I remember/would have guessed).

JJMcJ3y ago

I think 2004 is when the concept really gained currency.

ric2b3y ago

So no one remembers Digg anymore, and how Reddit initially grew because Digg was pissing off its own community.

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