Comment on 4 Years of HN TrafficComments−ahsanhilal14ySo from pg's profile it seem like HN has been around for almost 5.5 years. I haven't been around HN for that long, but was HN initially private and 4 years ago gave access to public? Would be interested to know.−mixmax14yNo, it was public from the start - the ID's are sequential, so you can go back and see what the first submissions were.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a rather smallish number}
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So from pg's profile it seem like HN has been around for almost 5.5 years. I haven't been around HN for that long, but was HN initially private and 4 years ago gave access to public? Would be interested to know.
No, it was public from the start - the ID's are sequential, so you can go back and see what the first submissions were.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a rather smallish number}