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HN started small, as you can see from the earliest 5 posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5

It essentially started as a small place to share links for the early YC attendees and slowly grew from there.




Amazed to see jacquesm's comment. I knew he was an old member, but it seems he's been active right from the get-go.


Note that his comment was posted quite a while after the submission (although, still a long time ago!)

I also just realised my account is a little older than jacquesm's O_o that.. was unexpected.


They even had trolls and shadow banning back then by the looks of things.




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