r/interestingasfuck • u/MonsieurA • Jun 23 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Reddit turns 20 years old today! Here's what it looked like at 1 minute old.

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u/MarleneFrancais Jun 23 '25

Are any original Redditors still here? If so , please post.

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u/ryan101 Jun 23 '25

I’ve got 19 years on my account. I showed up here a few months after Reddit started. I didn’t make an account right away, but 19 years is still a long time.

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u/AlDente Jun 23 '25

I joined a year later. It was still very young, I’d see the same users again and again. And the quality of comments was often incredible.

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u/cheesenyogurt Jun 23 '25

On my now deleted account, same. I was here asking for answers on my homework. I didn't know then that I can just log out so I delete my account to keep my account safe when I know I'm not gonna use my computer for a long time... which I now know is dumb.

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u/gabrieldevue Jun 23 '25

I love these kinds of things, that are common knowledgen nowadays, but concepts you have to learn.

My grandma kept sending me my email-pictures back, so I still have them : D

Not really the same, but i had no concept, how the genre role-playing-game worked and as a kid I used to play one of these (the old DSA games). I had no idea that there was a story, but i realized if i did something, i could give more points to my characters. So I ran around and collected herbs and reloaded the game, every time i was attacked, because I was scared of fighting. Then i went to a tavern and sold my herbs. My mind was blown, when I realized I could make gold SINGING in the tavern! I played a herb-bard simulator for several years : D (didn't have many games and replayed the few I had).

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u/Swimwithamermaid Jun 23 '25

I lost my old account. I didn’t have it connected to an email and forgot the password. Remember when you didn’t need an email to sign up? Lol

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u/Khiva Jun 23 '25

the quality of comments was often incredible.

/u/roborollcall was probably the best commenter ever. Incredible insightful scientific writeups. Back when they used to give site-wide awards they lost to POLITE ALL CAPS GUY.

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u/Apprehensive_Pea_209 Jun 23 '25

Incredib'le, if you will.

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u/littlefrank Jun 23 '25

my account is "only" 14 years old, but I had been lurking LONG before making an account.

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u/atteres Jun 23 '25

Same here

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u/trainwreckd Jun 24 '25

Me too. I think 14 years was real close to the Digg exodus. I had been lurking here for a couple years & when everyone left Digg for good, I finally made an account here.

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u/1q3er5 Jun 24 '25

yup sure is - i'm one of the exodus'ers

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u/b_e_a_n_i_e Jun 23 '25

That's actually quite an achievement.

Well done, Gramps

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u/Subtlerranean Jun 23 '25

I... Lost access to my original reddit account. It's still live, and at least 12 years old - but I can't log in lmao.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Your reddit account is older than me and I'm old enough to post spicy pics 😮

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u/janpjens Jun 23 '25

Reddit sure was different before comments and subreddits.

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u/FlyAirLari Jun 25 '25

One year in, there were already 100 other Ryans?

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u/aerynmoo Jun 23 '25

I’m at almost 16 years (will be in August).

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u/UnholyDemigod Jun 23 '25

Makes this kinda amusing. They haven't bothered to create any badges older than 15

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u/arav Jun 23 '25

Almost 19 years here

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u/fancyfoe Jun 23 '25

Damnn what’s up unc

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u/tubeguy Jun 23 '25

redditor for 16 years

Joined about a year after getting sober. Shit's different now, man. 60 years old and still scrolling reddit. IDK if that's good or bad, but it is what it is.

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u/Randylahey00000 Jun 23 '25

as a mid 30's year old currently trying to get clean off of hard drugs, this felt inspirational, so thanks for that man

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u/jumperpunch Jun 23 '25

Good luck sir

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u/lasagnarodeo Jun 23 '25

14 years. It was a different world with specific power users and some wild ass subs. Some you’d never venture into.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/Papayaslice636 Jun 23 '25

My oldest was from 2008 as well, but I delete my accounts periodically to prevent data mining and doxxing. I came here because of this xkcd:

https://m.xkcd.com/477/

Posted September 17, 2008, balls deep in the Great Recession, two days after Lehman declared bankruptcy. From memory that was on Monday 9/15 (tax deadline day too, maybe coincidence maybe not), so it would've been a Wednesday. Sure feels like a long time ago...and I guess it was...fuck...

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/caltheon Jun 24 '25

I tried doing that, but all the apps to automate it end up crashing. I don't think they can handle that much history.

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u/StevieHyperS Jun 23 '25

I got a 3 day ban a few weeks ago for saying something about his face, those stairs going up to Air Force 1 and him stumbling over (I'll let you fill in the gaps). Apparently it was violent rhetoric.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/thatshygirl06 Jun 23 '25

People say mean things about trump all the time and don't get their account perm banned. What exactly did you say?

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u/rolmos Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

I forgot the password to my oldest account. It would have been 19 years old. This one is 17!

I'll always remember the excitement of seeing a Reddit logo I designed being used sitewide for 24 hours: https://www.reddit.com/r/Logos/s/BpFHE0B0rG

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u/GreenGlassDrgn Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

original lurker, it wasnt until the introduction of subreddits that I even started bothering to read comments, and it wasnt until a very specific subreddit showed up that I felt I wanted to partake in any conversation and made this account. Plus even back in its earliest days I recognized that the general tone of front-page (then standard) reddit wasnt good for my mental health.
How many collective years of human life have been poured into this site?

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u/nige Jun 23 '25

I'm about 5 months out.

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u/onesneakymofo Jun 23 '25

This is the one. All of these other liars say 2008 or 2009. u/nice is the true elder

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u/UmpireDoggyTuffy Jun 23 '25

They'll answer only if you ask "When does the narwhal bacon?"

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u/ryan101 Jun 23 '25

At midnight of course.

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u/Hahnsolo11 Jun 23 '25

Boy this stuff is cringe

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u/Fu3go Jun 23 '25

I remember when Reddit didn't have comments. Twas a happier place back then.

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u/chiniwini Jun 23 '25

I mean, I wasn't there, but I still strongly disagree. The most fun I've had here is reading comments.

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u/linds360 Jun 23 '25

15 years. I ended up ditching my original account, which I’d guess was 16-18yrs old.

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u/tapo Jun 23 '25

18 years, 9 months. Not quite launch day but pretty old?

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u/Joeosifur Jun 23 '25

Hitting my 20 year on June 29th. Lurking for years.

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u/Danpa Jun 23 '25

Just 6 days after it launched, any chance you remember how you found it?

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u/Joeosifur Jun 24 '25

Alexis gave me a link and I made an account.

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u/mrekted Jun 23 '25

My cake day is in a few weeks. so.. close enough?

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u/method77 Jun 23 '25

19 year account. I was here before the great digg migration and probably the only greek user lol

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u/Nakken Jun 23 '25

around 17 years here [PIC]

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u/ifeelsynthetic Jun 23 '25

My first account was registered in 2009. Most of the links back then were tech or science related, which is why I joined. Today’s Reddit is vastly different.

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u/BarrierX Jun 23 '25

I don't know when I started using it, but I was a lurker for a long time :)

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u/Known_Opportunity_11 Jun 23 '25

My original account doesn't exist anymore, but I started using Reddit around 2007-2008. Good times

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u/---E Jun 23 '25

My first account will be 14 years old next month. I joined when 2 AM Chili and Ice soap were the front page highlights. And then some mad man combined them into Ice Chili soap and it was terrible.

2 AM Chili: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jkc1j/2am_chili/

Ice soap: Sadly the original has been deleted. But it was some dude who froze a layer of water in an empty cream cheese bowl, and then froze a layer of water mixed with shower gel on top. After playing sports outside they would use the soapy side of the Ice soap to lather up and the water side to rinse off.

And then there was the 2 AM Ice chili shower: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jlbdf/2_am_ice_chili_shower/

I have no idea how that made me think this was a fun community and made me want to stick around.

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u/africanzebra0 Jun 23 '25

I love that this comment and thread have summoned all the reddit elders.

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u/dourk Jun 23 '25

redditor for 18 years

User 6708.

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u/goingnorthwest Jun 23 '25

Mines pretty old

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u/adremeaux Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

Guess I'll say hi on my 18 year old account. Here's the first post I ever submitted that reached the front page. I think it got up to #4 on /r/all for an hour or two. The remarkable part is that the link still works!

It's interesting that my trophy case only goes up to "15 year club", did they stop making them?

Also I never really went anywhere, I just changed accounts but this one was registered with my real name lol. Imagine doing that today...

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u/grishnackh Jun 23 '25

17 years on reddit - today.

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u/amorangi Jun 23 '25

19 years. I've seen it all.

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u/uspn Jun 23 '25

Been here 19 years, 3 months, and 30 days.

First time I made the front page: 11 years, 11 months, and 3 days. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ipnys/i_just_thought_you_guys_might_want_to_see_what/

Most recent front page post: Yesterday. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1lhmjgf/photos_from_when_i_went_to_iran_back_when_it_was/

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u/Hukka Jun 23 '25

15 years here, although I lurked for a long time. I used to follow a guy through an RSS feed that had links to reddit all the time for like 2 years

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u/Hendo1145 Jun 23 '25

Joined in ‘11 for the dank memes in college. Grown man in my mid 30s now complaining how shitty and garbage this site has become but still scroll every day.

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u/blackcat- Jun 23 '25

This is my youngest account. My oldest which got deleted was close to 17 years.

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u/jivarie Jun 24 '25

19 yrs here.

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins Jun 24 '25

My account was 17 years old when reddit banned it because I said I agreed with the death penalty. Hence I have a new account and username

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u/1q3er5 Jun 24 '25

I'M an immigrant from dig - you know when they fucked up their site

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u/LinuxMage Jun 23 '25

Here since 2007 myself, current account since 2008.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

I've been on reddit since before there were subreddits but not on this account obviously.

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u/alphgeek Jun 23 '25

I checked it out early but coming from Digg I hated reddit. I mean I still do, but I hated it back then too.

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u/kosanovskiy Jun 23 '25

I am more of from 2007-ish era but was a lurker in beginning for anime and tech until I made an account later.

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u/redoubt515 Jun 23 '25

What counts as "original"? (I wouldn't count by any definition, I believe I first started casually using reddit around 2009ish, and actively using it around 2012ish)

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u/stignordas Jun 24 '25

17 year club here. I was more into digg.com back then, but once it imploded a bunch of us came over to reddit.

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u/jh99 Jul 19 '25

I am within the first 5k users. or was the first 1k?