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2004·Early web, before YouTube

Digg

The front page of the internet, until its users left in a week.

You might remember it as the Digg exodus

From the early web

The story

What this was

A social news site where votes decided the front page. Its 2010 redesign caused a user revolt that emptied it almost overnight and sent the audience to Reddit — the clearest case of a platform losing a community by decision.

It first appeared in 2004, during early web, before YouTube.

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Early web, before YouTube

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Behind the record

Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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A social news site where votes decided the front page. Its 2010 redesign caused a user revolt that emptied it almost overnight and sent the audience to Reddit — the clearest case of a platform losing a community by decision.
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