What is Digg?126 Comments
- FuryOfThor, on 07/16/2008, -3/+831998: People discover that in addition to AOL, the internet contains pornography. Adoption rates soar.
- jggube, on 07/15/2008, -0/+70When you think about it, the evolution of the internet is simply amazing. What's great is that it's sort of a natural evolution dictated not by a group of people but just a collective, uncoordinated shift to something new.
In my teens, it was forums, IRC, encyclopedia britannica - and now (someone's teens) - it's social media, social networking, blogs, and wiki's.
I wonder where we'll be 10 years from now? - doctorfungi, on 07/16/2008, -2/+36No mention of porn?
- Phoros, on 07/16/2008, -2/+2911: Internet becomes own sovereign territory?
- SniperZero, on 07/16/2008, -3/+30Oh I thought this was just going to be another
numa numa, starwars kid, will it blend, will it run on crysis list..
but I guess not. Good read. - Paranoidmarvin, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2314. Profit
- mghwom1, on 07/16/2008, -5/+262 girls 1 cup?! Come on.
- Atomic05, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2012: Internet gains sentience and destroys its unwitting creators.
- thebza451, on 07/16/2008, -0/+17web 6.0
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+17Sounds also like the (true) free market.
- ryleyleckie, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1513. ???
- JMitch42, on 07/16/2008, -1/+14Come on...no Napster?
- lensman00, on 07/16/2008, -1/+13Webcrawler deserves a mention.
This might be the first web SERP (search engine results page), and foreshadows Google's PageRank method. It shows the 25 most referenced web pages as of mid-March 1994:
http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/FirstTop25.html
Webcrawler history:
http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html - klipseracer, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11down....
- username7410, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1111th Greatest Moment in Internet History
- AeroSquid, on 07/16/2008, -1/+11It was a HUGE moment in internet history. All the sudden corporate America had to pay attention to what was going on. The soft underbelly of a flawed and tired business model was exposed. It changed the way we used the internet and it changed the way most people saw the internet.
Piracy happens on the high seas, I think you meant to say copyright infringement. - fohktor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9dugg down, just to see how low we can get it.
- whiteknives, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9http://209.85.173.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ...
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+10Is "the digg effect" listed in this top 10 because I can't even load the page.
- Ilyanep, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8What about Rick Astley?
- mactrix, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Dugg for the 10 largest dot com flops.
- Zarokima, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Porn as #1 is a given. It must be left off to even the playing field.
- Ransack, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8IRC, ICQ, MSN Messanger, Aim, etc i think these type of chats deserve a mention.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+10I am with jggube, the evolution of the internet is amazing to see the contributions of so many people. I think that is why net neutrality is so important, because if control was giving to one group or a few groups of people it would screw the whole thing up and really prevent a lot of the independent innovation.
- BevansDesign, on 07/16/2008, -5/+12What, no Al Gore?
- ryleyleckie, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7mirror?
- badwithcomputer, on 07/16/2008, -4/+10no lemonparty? lame.
- InorganicMatter, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6But not in the direction you hoped.
- Haoie, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Memes [see some of the above comments] aren't great moments in internet history.
- jimmypoops, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6*****
- cyberwiz01, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Hey! I can see my house from here!
- dfsw, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Worst. Website. Ever.
So bad it is worth looking at. - slinky317, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Is anyone else really let down when you click on a Top-10 list and it starts with number 1? My entire motivation for looking at the rest of the list just vanishes.
- dcmcderm, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Damn, the URL changed! I used to be able to recognize it and divert my mouse accordingly. Oh well I've been serenaded by mr astley once again
- macaddct1984, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4"Ironically, the founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, met at Stanford University while working on a graduate project of how back links improve search results."
How is that ironic? That's like saying "Ironically, the inventor of coke began working on a project of how adding sugar improves the taste of carbonated water." - rock42, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Inte ...
- fohktor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+49600 bps for me. mmmm the speed
- oddworld19, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Its a series of tubes!
- floridiot2, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Jan 14, 2004 Goatse was suspended. May that day live in infamy.
- Sitius256, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5the 11th moment, when this article went down.
- spect3r, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5oh man, I used to love webcrawler !!! Reminds me of my Compu Serve days
http://web.archive.org/web/19961023234707/http://w ...
I Miss the spider :( - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+610 years from now?
Oil riots.
Motorcycle gangs.
Full leather suits no longer just for the gay and BDSM communities. (Football shoulder pads also fashionable).
Instead of civil court, differences will be solved in the Thunder Dome.
Radioactive water. (Now's a good time to buy Brawndo stock).
Kevin Costner performing one man Shakespeare with his donkey (unless the polar ice caps have melted, in which case he will instead grow gills and drink his own filtered piss).
Most cars will be equipped with spikes on the wheels to pop other cars' tires.
The most popular sport will be Roller Ball.
Worldwide plague. (HINT: Don't listen to Randall Flagg. He's a total dick).
Andrew Zimmern unemployed. (Nothing edible is too "bizarre" to eat. On a related note, Rachel Ray publishes "101 ways to cook 'long pork'").
Television will still suck. - FreshHaikus, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3it is the only entry on a seperate list entitled "reasons the internet exsists"
- neko6, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3That's like saying u don't own your house, because the water pipes and electricity lines that come from outside aren't yours...
- darkfus, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Worst moment on the Internet: AOL finishes its first gateway allowing their once private user base to flood out onto the net.
- th3heretic, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Anyone got a link to a larger version of that internet web thing at the end?
- r4ge, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3sick bastard, I am so glad to see floppy disks are virtually non-existent. Lets all hope optical media is next. I mean who needs any of it if you have an awesomely fast internet connection and decent content delivery system!
- SkippyDoorknob, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Why would it matter?
- DrPostman, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3The greatest moment in internet history will happen when the Digg Effect
no longer ***** up a web site. - whoaohh, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I highly recommend the book "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman for anyone who finds this stuff interesting. The whole book isn't necessarily about the Internet, but it deals a lot with how the Internet has developed to make the world closer than ever. Great read.
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