Tech & Business History
Rise, Fall, and Relaunch: The Wild Ride of Digg and Its Battle With Reddit
Before Reddit became the undisputed front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy, user-powered news aggregator that dominated the mid-2000s web. This is the story of how it rose to the top, crashed spectacularly, and kept trying to come back.
Mar 12, 2026