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.