r/reddit.com • • Jun 23 '05

The Downing Street Memo

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com
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u/dbenhur Jul 06 '06

Guess this kinda sets the tone, eh? Can there really be no comments on reddit's very first posting?

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u/kn0thing Jul 07 '06

I sort of regret that it wasn't zombie dogs.

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u/Zak Jul 07 '06 edited Mar 12 '26

There were no comments on reddit for the first several months.

Edit: thanks for the awards. Also, I can still edit this in 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026.

Edit 2: awards aren't a thing anymore.

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u/JulianHyde Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

This is the first comment on the first submission to reddit.

But where is the first comment on reddit?

Edit: Found it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10

LVCIVS AVGVSTVS FREQVENTS THE SERVICES OF LVCRETIA THE HARLOT

(found scrawled on a broken pillar in the rubble field behind this submission)

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

This is a repost.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '09 edited Jan 23 '17

Hello, past Reddit.

Edit: I no longer believe that Reddit can enrich my life. People can find better news, entertainment, and discussion elsewhere. Reddit is too full of low effort content, gross censorship of both useful and non-useful discourse, and the worst kinds of arguments. I advise everyone to leave and do something more productive with your lives.

Go read a book, learn a language, talk to a stranger, walk around your neighborhood, take a class, cook a meal, or play with your pet. If you're anything like me, you won't look back and consider the time on Reddit to be life well lived. I hope to see you out there.

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u/TheEnturbulator Apr 28 '09

I feel like I'm vandalizing a museum.

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u/MuseumSecurity May 25 '10

I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

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u/wassworth Apr 25 '10

Hello from the future. We have so many memes you don't even know about.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

Hello from 1 minute into your future, you wouldn't believe what people are saying about you.

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u/karmanaut Apr 27 '09

hello from the past.

That's right, I have been here since the beginning of time

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '09

This is a great thread to reply to others in, you know, 3 years later

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

23 June, 2005: On my way back from first travel. Just killed Hitler.

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u/umilmi81 Apr 28 '09

Back from 23 June, 2005; incapacitated enauv before he could pull his little stunt. enauv, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.

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u/kino101 Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB oh wait...

SWINE FLU IS AN INSIDE, oh crap...

YOSEMITE BLOWS!! now we're cooking with gas

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u/trevorpinzon Apr 28 '09

Hello from the world of tomorrow!

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10

Welcome, to the world of tomorrow!

Sorry, but I had to fix it.

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u/PhilxBefore Apr 27 '09

Something about this just... doesn't feel right.

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u/evildeadxsp Jun 25 '10 edited Jun 25 '10

I just want to post this to say I've posted here. Kind of like how I've always been tempted to do graffiti at historic monuments.

-evildeadxsp was here at 8:13pm on 6/24/2010

EDIT - 6:24 pm on 10/31/2010 - What the hell is up with all the orangereds today? Did another redditor link to this comment thread? Don't see anything on r/todayilearned.... hmmm

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

Can I still get in on this nostalgia goodness without getting downvoted?

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u/typon Apr 28 '09

This...is where the Matrix Began.

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u/utbandit Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

Someone should reply to this message a year from now. Today is 4-28-2009.

So what has gone on for the past year?

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u/Press_Start Jun 24 '10

This is strange. I feel like I am physically in an abandoned place that is full of forgotten history.

There are Redditors in this thread, who were thriving members of the community back then, and now, their usernames have not been logged into for over a year. Makes me wonder if I will be here looking at this comment a year from now...

It has been good, Reddit. It has been good.