Reddit is an American social news and discussion website where users submit links, text and images and vote on them, with the most popular posts rising to the front page. It was created by two University of Virginia graduates, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, who started it with funding from the start-up accelerator Y Combinator, and Aaron Swartz joined soon afterward. The site is organised into thousands of communities called subreddits, each with its own moderators and rules, covering subjects from news and science to hobbies and humour. Reddit was bought by the publisher Conde Nast in 2006, later spun off, and went public in 2024. Its communities have been the source of many internet trends.
Before and after
- 27 May 2005Release of Madagascar
- 30 May 2005Construction of Allianz Arena
- 13 June 2005Discovery of Gliese 876 d
- 22 June 2005Release of Cebuano Wikipedia
- 23 June 2005Founding of Reddit
- from 27 June 2005 to 1 July 2005Operation Red Wings
- 30 June 2005Discovery of Namaka
- 7 July 20057 July 2005 London bombings
- 9 July 2005Rise of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
More in Society, economy & sport
- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations
- 5 October 1948Founding of International Union for Conservation of Nature
- 1960Founding of Somalia
- 1 October 1963Founding of Nigeria
- 1985Introduction of new shekel
- 2015Rise of Wikipedia Asian Month
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.