Interesting. Perhaps you're also dating yourself. I also dialed into BBS boards with a 2400 baud modem (or 9600?) and discussed odd things on those boards. My main reason to check out Reddit in 2007 was to see what the early 20-somethings were thinking about. There were surveys at the time, so we knew the average was age 22, and most of the group worked in IT. There was one main page with no subs, if I remember correctly. Three guys managed it and also engaged in discussion. Redditors at that time joked about the kids at Digg, who seemed to be 13-years of age, predominantly, and presumably the same age as much of 4Chan back then. There was also occasional discussion of when Reddit would "jump the shark", as there were only a few hundred of us, at best, and only 20 or 30 vonting on posts at a given time. There was no karma for comments, which I think was great. When users could get karma for comments, the quality of the posts began to dwindle. When the Digg kids arrived in (2009? 2010?), the site grew exponentially and sold to Condé Naste. I'm not sure why I'm writing this. I suppose I like writing about history. The usual Redditors noticed that - during grade school days or hours - the Digg kids were not as active, and we tried to focus duscussions during work and grade school times, in order not to deal with the kids.