We Are the Nerds
The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · first published 2014
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Presents the history of the Internet forum Reddit, whose intensely-engaged users have changed the culture of the Internet.
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on “Ask HN: Material on early computing history and innovation?” ↗You might be interested in reading the book about Reddit that came out a few years ago, "We Are the Nerds". It doesn't shed a great light on Aaron Schwartz.
on “Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started” ↗I recently finished reading We Are the Nerds, which is about the history of Reddit (the company) and its community. One of the interesting parts was about the moderator of a bunch of subreddits that were full of all kinds of borderline illegal and…
on “Trolls break into meetings on Zoom” ↗…Chris from time to time. He's one of those people that you can just tell is genuinely a good person shortly after meeting him. I'm happy for the success he and Reddit have seen recently. After reading "We are the Nerds"... well, I don't want to say I got the impression he was treated poorly. But it was very odd. He seems like a hidden founder which is weird considering how many treat Aaron Schwartz, given the stories…
on “Employee #1: Reddit (2016)” ↗…product and gives a backstory about those returning. Aaron can't really return, so it makes sense he's not mentioned in this article. I believe he's mentioned in the book the article is excerpting, "We Are the Nerds".
on “Inside the Dramatic, Painful, and Hugely Successful Return of Reddit's Founders” ↗…Aaron and somehow got the idea for the "front page" thing. He called Steve and Alexis and said they should work on this new idea with another guy. They said sure. That's what I remember from reading "We Are The NERDS" anyway. In some ways it is sad because reddit was not Alexis/Steve's first idea, and that idea did go on to be big. Then again they probably just wanted to be tech founders.
on “PG and Jessica” ↗