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>>Imusta+(OP)
It’s funny how I spend so much time on HN, yet couldn’t point out a single username (that I don’t know IRL) besides dang.

This is one reason I feel an odd disconnect (anonymity?) with HN that isn’t felt on other social platforms I’ve been a part of. Those often have avatars or some other visual form of recognition that helps put a “face” to a name.

I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but I definitely think it’s intentional.

>>jader2+SJ9
Reddit was originally designed this way, and HN sort of accidentally copied it. Back then, we always said, "content is first". We wanted people to get upvotes for their content, not for who they were.

I prefer it that way.

>>jedber+gK9
This is how I find out that reddit is older than Hacker News. Mind blown!

>>oneeye+G7b
Wait until you find out about Slashdot.

>>rayine+sEb
If you tell me that slashdot is also younger than reddit, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself. I swear it was around in the early 00s, if not before.

>>oneeye+rHb
Haha, no. Slashdot was from 1997. Reddit was 2005.

>>rayine+dLb
/. user 6030 checking in.

The irony is, I had an account earlier but forgot the credentials. By 1996 or so I'd devised a standardised system for creating different but memorable-to-me passwords.

Then again, it blows some folks' minds that I've had and been paying for my primary email (on cix.co.uk) since 1991. My email address is older than the world wide web.