Tech History
The Rise, Fall, and Stubborn Survival of Digg: The Site That Almost Broke the Internet
Before Reddit became the self-proclaimed front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy, community-driven news aggregator that dominated the mid-2000s web. This is the story of how it rose to the top, lost everything in one of tech's most dramatic collapses, and kept trying to come back.
Mar 12, 2026