run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
Where can I read more about that?
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”
After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount
Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
Where can I read more about that?
There are some articles about his death linked on Wikipedia but they’re pretty just-the-facts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka
I was having a hard time imagining a worse reality than this one, thank you.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Conde Nast didn’t make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did