Man, I clicked on the rest of that first thread. Man, I thought Reddit was garbage now, but hoooly crap it hasn't really switched up that much.
Yes and no. That was a frontpage askreddit post. Check it out. (34404 subscribers)
a community for 1 year In other words, your comparison point is this. Can you name any subreddits of under 40,000 people that aren't lunatic fringe specialty interests these days?
Duly noted. I deleted my account yesterday and it felt pretty damn good. Unlike Hubski, I don't want anyone to put the pieces together as much over there, and I felt like I was getting close to that point. So I made a new one and am subscribed to 4 or 5 things, about.
Well, I joined my first online forum in 2003-ish. I remember explaining what Google is to classmates (and to the teacher) in elementary school, having to spell it out because of the weird name. But yes, you're pretty spot on.
Fun fact: I graduated college a few weeks before this came out. This was the hot phone that year. Yahoo was the search engine you used if you didn't know about Altavista.digital.com. "Wireless" was what the British called radio. eBay was that bullshit beanie baby site and when you wanted to pass a note in class, you wrote it on paper as texting didn't exist. There were no laptops in class (fun fact: students couldn't really afford color laptops until my junior year; the people I knew with laptops had monochrome) and anybody rawkin' an AOL email address was a hopeless newb, not an old-schooler.
Oh, you just reminded me that I still have an account, Off deleting!
Yeah, I looked at it kind of went "how could I ever like that?"