Reddit was founded in June 2005.
Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian on June 23, 2005, in Medford, Massachusetts.
The two were roommates and students at the University of Virginia at the time and began building Reddit for fun.
American Startup funder called Y Combinator (YC) gave Reddit $100,000. Later on, in the same year, Reddit merged with Infogami and started working with Aaron Swartz.
Swartz rewrote Reddit’s codebase, using the program he had designed for Infogami.
Both sites struggled to gain traction individually; however, when they merged to form Reddit, the site started to take off.
Shortly after launching, features were added, such as commenting, which was added in December 2005.
Reddit became a place where people could discuss and share thoughts and ideas.
