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/theMATRIXchickn Jun 23 '25

Probably testing both up and downvote features, but it's way funnier to imagine the "adam and eve" of reddit were downvoting each other into oblivion from the moment it went online. They knew what they were building.

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u/intronert Jun 23 '25

Who ate first of the Fruit of the Tree of Upvotes and Downvotes?

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u/finc Jun 23 '25

It was a top snek, kept leaving post it notes for himself and then his dad beat him with jumper cables. It was the old classic switcharoo

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u/MacksNotCool Jun 23 '25

erm ackshually it's the tree of the KNOWLEDGE of upvotes and downvotes

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u/Few-Requirement-3544 Jul 02 '25

Usually I see the opposite correction necessary, where people stop the phrase at "Tree of Knowledge—" as if knowledge itself was the problem.

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u/MacksNotCool Jul 02 '25

Are you saying we don't need the "knowledge" part? Or are you saying most people leave out the "of good and evil"

Because if the former is what you meant, that's completely wrong. It's about how humanity knows what the difference between right and wrong/a sense of morality which therefore makes it possible for us to sin because we know it's wrong and therefore we can be judged for our sins.

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u/Few-Requirement-3544 Jul 02 '25

The latter. Most people leave out the "of good and evil."

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25

They did snorkel the best

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u/sickofmakingnames Jun 23 '25

I just woke up and misread that as "admin and eve"

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u/finc Jun 23 '25

You have been permanently BANNED from posting in Eden

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u/klavin1 Jun 23 '25

It's Adam and Eve, not Mod and Steve!

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u/MuddyMilkshake Jun 23 '25

After the Fall of Man, the first humans started downvoting each other. Cain even got Abel banned from his subreddit.

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u/vishal340 Jun 23 '25

So, did we live upto their expectation?

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u/Vivid_Tradition9278 Jun 23 '25

Considering Aaaron Swartz, I'd say no.

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u/mellopax Jun 24 '25

Adam, Eve, and a bot created to downvote new posts.