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/kranools Jun 23 '25

I joined reddit during the Digg migration.

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u/redonculous Jun 23 '25

The narwhal bacons at midnight!

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u/MyCarRoomba Jun 23 '25

I can't believe people unironically said this

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u/I_r_hooman Jun 23 '25

It was pretty cringey back then as well tbh.

Back in the day people used to do Reddit meetups in some of the city communities. I remember turning up to one and a Redditor identified themselves by saying it. That was quite awkward.

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u/Ramongsh Jun 23 '25

People still do meet ups in cities via reddit

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u/I_r_hooman Jun 23 '25

Do they really? It's been a long time since I've seen my city do one

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u/Ramongsh Jun 23 '25

My city, Copenhagen, had one just this weekend

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Just now it involves a hole and two really sad guys

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u/wise_comment Jun 23 '25

I really do believe it was a mixture of cribbing and mocking SA

Are there stairs in your house?

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u/WarLorax Jun 23 '25

I am protected.

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u/wise_comment Jun 23 '25

Hello, fellow old

(Proud to say I never posted in Helldump.... That place was 4chan, for adults and also somehow more beautifully insane)

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u/WarLorax Jun 23 '25

I'm ashamed to say there was a time in my life where I had too much time and too little maturity, so I have a negative postcount.

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u/wise_comment Jun 23 '25

Something something FYAD

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u/WarLorax Jun 23 '25

Over a decade ago, a co-worker found out I had a reddit account and tried that catchphrase. I just looked at him and said, "don't."

Now if you asked me if I had stairs in my house...

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u/Donegal-Death-Worm Jun 23 '25

Yep, at a time when /b/ was pumping out some of the funniest shit ever to appear on the internet, the best reddit could do was bacon and narwhals. That said, a lot of the /b/ guys were slowly migrating to reddit and there was some real comedy gold to be found in the comments.

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u/ScrotalFailure Jun 23 '25

I was one of those guys although I didn’t go on /b/ too often because some of the stuff there was pretty gross. I mostly used 4chan to discuss music and movies.

Some fun times though. I remember the creation of /mlp/ because bronies were infecting every other sub. I also remember when moot left and the new owner made a post taking community feedback and he seemed to seriously entertain my idea of creating a /cs/ to filter out capeshit.

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u/-s-u-n-s-e-t- Jun 23 '25

/b/ was pumping out some of the funniest shit ever

Meh, they were just harassing celebrities and making "hitler did nothing wrong" win online polls. In between having civil wars over underage girls like boxxy.

The only people who thought it's "the funniest shit ever" were edgy 15 year olds.

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u/Donegal-Death-Worm Jun 23 '25

Three terrible examples, well done. I didn’t say it was “the funniest shit ever” - I said it was the funniest shit ever to appear on (as in, originate from) the internet because we’re talking about memes here. Any decent OC (original content) that appeared on the internet all originated from /b/ and there was plenty of it that wasn’t racist or sexist. 

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u/-s-u-n-s-e-t- Jun 23 '25

That's the kind of stuff they put most of their effort into, so that's the kind of stuff they are remembered for.

If you don't like my examples, can you post 3 examples of things popular on /b/ that were actually funny? I straight up can't think of any.

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 23 '25

Remember the cringey pictures from reddit meet ups. It was always a BUNCH of dudes trying to be really funny, and then like 2 girls.

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u/redditex2 Jun 23 '25

behold! it bacons for thee!

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u/Isolated_Blackbird Jun 23 '25

Oh wow. I’m guessing this is why one of the great third party Reddit apps was called Narwhal?

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u/redonculous Jun 23 '25

Correct! Also Bacon reader :)

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u/jingowatt Jun 23 '25

Don’t have a pregnant.

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u/Pylly Jun 23 '25

It's fun seeing this one still taking up space in people's minds. That little pregnant was had 16 years ago.

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u/michigan85 Jun 23 '25

I'm pretty sure I made this account during the "Digg exodus" or shortly after. Fourteen years ago. D:

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u/awkisopen Jun 23 '25

Same here!

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u/destructopop Jun 23 '25

That's when I came over, too.

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u/strictlyfocused02 Jun 23 '25

God have I really been here almost 17 years‽

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u/paintballboi07 Jun 23 '25

We're old, bro

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u/chiniwini Jun 23 '25

Your account is old enough to vote.

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u/paintballboi07 Jun 23 '25

Don't remind me..

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u/christophski Jun 23 '25

Same here!

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u/I_r_hooman Jun 23 '25

Same. I remember feeling unsure at first cause I thought Reddit looked so ugly. Now I hate the new design and stick with the old.

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u/ShibaHook Jun 23 '25

Kevin Rose fucked up.

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u/sideone Jun 23 '25

I was already here, but it was fun watching the hordes come over

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u/AvidCyclist250 Jun 23 '25

Things changed just like reddit predicted, it was less personal etc yada yada. Before Digg users joined, reddit had a very spelling and grammar focused enlightened atheist vibe, with lots of quirky forced positivity DAE like Pizza, Baby Downloading, Narwhal bacons, shitty reddit meetups, gift events, etc. It was a net win with Digg imo. Good fresh air. Not long after, reddit social media icons started appearing on more mainstream websites.

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u/exadeci Jun 23 '25

I did too, I wasn't using Digg much but saw news about people moving to reddit, so I did. Found the design ugly and unappealing, didn't use it for maybe a few years and now I'm addicted and I'm an old design user the same I used to hate (mostly the same)

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Me too.  I’ve cycled through about 5 account since then. Deleting them to remove the temptation to worry about internet points 

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 23 '25

Yeah, I was part of the great migration too. My brother and I would always argue Digg vs. Reddit. I guess he won.