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:
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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...
"bugbear" is PG.
Edit, I think it was through this essay:
http://www.reddit.com/comments/20775