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From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1 (openforum.com)
51 points by icey on Nov 13, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



This is like those stories where the story is artificially separated into different pages for more ad views, except you're forbidden from clicking.

That said, it was a good story so far, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest. I'd like to understand how you can easily go from an idea to pre-order food over the Internet to reddit.


Serializing articles and novels is a common practice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature) It works the same as TV shows: you can release an installment before the next one is even written.


Yeah no kidding, I want my up-vote back. . .I should have known better, a title like that is to good to be true.

Somebody please kill this.


So, you upvoted something before reading it?


it says "Part 1" in the title.


Little jarring to see this link here since I'm currently a developer on the openforum codebase....

"Wait; people are actually going to use this site? People I might actually care about? Creeeepy"


don't bother clicking, the first part basically ends with "a girlfriend had this great idea, we'll call it re...[more next week]"




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