History - Reddit was founded in June 2005 by Matt Huffman and Alex Ohanian of whom both were 22 studying at the University of Virginia. It recieved its initial funding from a company named Y Combinator, this is a start up funding firm. They offer seed money, advice and connections at two 3 month programs per year in return they take on average a 6% equity from the company.
The Reddit team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in 2005 and Aaron Swartz joined shortly after in 2006 as part of the companies merger with Swartz's Infogami. Towards the end of 2006 reddit was taken over by a subsidery of Advance Publications a magazine publisher. In June 2008 Reddit became and open source project with all the codes and libraries written for the site openly available on Github. Reddit leveled off for a few years and was more of an underground website up untill about 2009 when it really boomed. In June 2010 after an explosion in traffic Reddit launched Reddit Gold. Reddits premium service charged at a small fee. Due to this extra income this enables Reddit to invest in more servers and employees. In 2011 Reddit gained its independence from Conde Nas and is now operating as a subsidery of its parent company Advance Publications.Community & Culture - The website is best known for its community and the content being fully generated by the users alone. Reddit has a range of subject-areas ranging from more widely used subject-ares to more niche sub-reddits.
You can literally find anything on reddit. Its a massive online repository for knowledge, discussion and interest. In early December 2010, members of the Christianity subreddit decided to hold a fundraiser and later members of the atheism subreddit decided to give some friendly competition, cross-promoting fundraising drives for Doctors Without Borders and World Visions's Clean Water Fund, respectively. Later, the Islam subreddit joined in, raising money for Islamic Relief. In less than a week, the three communities (as well as the Reddit community at large) raised over $200,000. Most of this was raised by the atheism subreddit, though the Christianity subreddit had a higher donation amount per subscriber. Reddit started the largest Secret Santa program in the world, which is still in operation to date. For the 2010 Holiday season, 92 countries were involved in the Secret Santa program. There were 17,543 participants, and $662,907.60 was collectively spent on gift purchases and shipping costs.
| Name | Subscribers (To nearest 10,000) | Created |
|---|---|---|
| pics | 1,720,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| gaming | 1,450,000 | 2007-09-17 |
| worldnews | 1,530,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| videos | 1,270,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| todayilearned | 1,370,000 | 2008-12-27 |
| IAmA | 1,320,000 | 2009-05-27 |
| funny | 1,760,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| atheism | 740,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| politics | 1,340,000 | 2007-08-05 |
| science | 1,340,000 | 2006-10-18 |
| AskReddit | 1,580,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| technology | 1,110,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| WTF | 1,360,000 | 2008-01-25 |
| blog & announcements | 1,590,000 & 1,720,000 | 2008-01-25 & 2009-06-17 |
| bestof | 660,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| AdviceAnimals | 810,000 | 2010-12-07 |
| Music | 880,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| aww | 770,000 | 2008-01-24 |
| movies | 760,000 | 2008-01-28 |
Please amend the title of this post - remember you need to treat your blog as a professional piece of work as an external moderator may look at it to assess work. Thank you NH
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