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reddit front page on June 11, 2008
reddit front page on June 11, 2008
URL www.reddit.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site News aggregation site
Registration Free
Owner Condé Nast Publications
Created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
Launched 2005
Current status online

Reddit (also reddit) is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide Magazine Publishing company Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store organize search and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of Metadata Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.

The site has discussion areas in which users may discuss the posted links and vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can display it through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which other users like and subsequently "vote up" receive "karma" points as a reward for submitting interesting articles.

Reddit also includes several topical sections called "subreddits", which focus on specific topics, such as programming, science, NSFW, and politics. Not suitable/safe for work ( NSFW) not work-suitable/safe ( NWS) or not school-suitable ( NSS) is Internet slang or There are dozens of subreddits. [1]

The Reddit logo changes for various holidays and often for no reason, paying homage to Star Wars, classic video games, and geek culture in general. Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded The word geek is a Slang term noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things The logo generally changes daily, picking up on big dicussion subjects within the site or major news stories.

Although Reddit is not moderated by its owners, the Reddit developers have built a system to aid with curtailing spam, which works based on the "reports" of users.

Contents

History

Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, then 22-year-old graduates of the University of Virginia. The University of Virginia (also called UVa, UVA, Mr Jefferson's University, or The University) is a highly selective public research [2] It received its initial funding from Y Combinator. Y Combinator is a seed-stage Startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe and Aaron Swartz in 2005. Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer web developer and entrepreneur Aaron Swartz joined in late January 2006 as part of the company's merger with Swartz's Infogami. [3] The combined company was known as "not a bug". Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired, acquired not a bug on 31 October 2006. Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide Magazine Publishing company Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [4]

Technology

Reddit was originally written in Lisp, but was rewritten in Python in 2005. Lisp (or LISP) is a family of Computer Programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully parenthesized syntax Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [5] The reasons given for the switch were faster performance, wider access to code libraries, and greater development flexibility. In Computer science, a library is a collection of Subroutines used to develop Software. The Python web framework former reddit employee Aaron Swartz developed to run the site, web. Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer web developer and entrepreneur py, is now available as an open-source project[6].

Reddit is hosted on several Linux servers running lighttpd[7]. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks The term web server can mean one of two things A Computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web clients which are lighttpd (pronounced "lighty" is a Web server designed to be secure fast standards-compliant and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments

References

  1. ^ reddits
  2. ^ Adams, Richard. "reddit.com", The Guardian, 2005-12-08. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Retrieved on 2006-12-23. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city  
  3. ^ Swartz, Aaron (February 27, 2006). Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer web developer and entrepreneur Events 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Introducing Infogami. Infogami. Retrieved on 2007-01-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King
  4. ^ Arrington, Michael (October 31, 2006). J Michael Arrington (born March 13 1970 in Orange California) is a Serial entrepreneur and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Breaking news: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires reddit. TechCrunch. TechCrunch is a Blog about Web 20 products & companies many of the posts written by Michael Arrington. Retrieved on 2007-01-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King
  5. ^ "On lisp" blog post by reddit moderator "spez," detailing the reasons for switching to python from lisp
  6. ^ Official web.py site
  7. ^ Netcraft report on reddit.com

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