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Creation
Reddit is created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both 22-year-old gaduates of The University of Virginia. It recieved its initial funding from Y Combinator of $100,000. Reddit is a social media website with over 200,000 active members on it each day. There are hundreds of 'sub'reddits which are user created and can be about anything. With over one billion pages views per month Reddit is continuously expanding and updating -
The team expands
(date not specified) The team of designers expands to add Christopher Slowe. -
First post and comment
The first post was made by - Nutshapio
The first comment was made by - charlieb -
Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz became an official member of the reddit team. -
/r/ Sub-Reddit and the users
The users of Reddit can now create their own sub-reddit, similar to a new thread on a forum. While there is no 'Main' reddit, the front page serves as the closest thing to one. -
Reddit becomes an open scource project
Reddit became an open scource project. -
Goodbye Steve
(day of month not specified)Steve Huffman leaves reddit to go start a travel site called Hipmunk -
Reddit mobile.
Reddit mobile was released with a seperate interface using CSS and including a new colour scheme and a bunch of other improvements. -
Reddit gold
(Date not specified) Reddit gold is introduced charging 3.99(US) a month or 29.99(US) a year the extra income allowing them to buy more servers and employ more people. -
The Exodus
(Most of August was involved here.) Reddit posts took over the home page of Digg, starting up the mass exodus to Reddit. -
Bye Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian leaves Reddit to join up with Steve Huffman on Hipmunk. -
JSTOR
(Date not specified) In early 2011 Aaron had supposedly downloaded academic journals through a Laptop in a wiring closet, On January 6th two MIT police officers and a Secret Service agent on the charges of breaking and entering with the inent to commit a felony -
1 Billion
Reddit has recived more than 1 billion page views per month; the average time on the site was 15 minutes 40 seconds. -
Reddit becomes independent
Reddit became operationally seperate of Condé Nast. -
Blackout
Reddit announced that it would partake in a 12-hour sitewide blackout in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. -
Gawker
(Date not specified) A Gawker magazine was published focusing on the real life identity of "Violentacrez" a Reddit admin who was linked to pictures of underage girls, rape fantasies, upskirt photos, and other similar subjects. Soon after the article was published the contributor Micheal Brutsch, age 49, was fired from his job. Soon after the article was published several of the mods banned all Gawker links from their Subreddits. -
Goodbye Aaron...
Aaron Swartz passed away at the age of 27, he had joined Reddit in 2006 and is missed on the reddit team. He was found in his Brooklyn apartment after he had hung himself. Since his death, the open access movement kickstarted and MIT has been hacked twice.
