Also, this is relevant.

Back then you had to beat your rivals to death with animal bones to protect your embeds. Who knew that from such humble beginnings we would eventually explore space, contact extraterrestrial intelligence, and post fart videos? It staggers the imagination.

Ye olde Sifte.

I think we've evolved a lot and mostly in the right direction too.

@blankfist , this was also on that playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLk3phP2zak

Even better, some other facts:

It took only 3 votes to hit the main page. Later it was 7 at night (Pacific time) and 3 during the day. Later changed (and stuck at) 10 for all.

There was no PQueue. We had *.save (no .) to keep them alive for another 24 hours. It sucked. Also no dupeof, so we would dead dupes.

There were no power points. As such, when it was made available, fixing dead embeds gave you star points. Way way way over powered.

You've come a long way, baby.

Nice. I was there since I see one of my submissions. I am old.

>> ^blankfist:

Also, this is relevant.



/me farts too.

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Man that takes me back. I still love olive green an orange text.

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The only thing the archive is missing is the big Sifter logo in the header - it looked like Siftbot. Here's a screen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66786638@N00/241937985/sizes/z/in/photostream/