Digg Turns Two

Today is Digg’s 2nd Birthday. Digg was born on December 5th 2004. The initial prototype of Digg was created by Owen Byrne who was hired by Kevin Rose through Elance. Qwen later became a fulltime Digg employee. Currently Digg is run by a bunch of 16 employees and scores 78 on Alexa’s Traffic Rank.

The domain name Digg.com is not registered under Kevin’s name, but it the domain name was registered under Jerimiah’s name because Rose did not want others to know that he was associated with Digg (lol).

Facts for Fun

• First story to hit the home page after officially releasing: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Cheat_Sheet
• # of users who registered in the first week: 578
• # of registered users today: 707,593
• First 10 users who registered and are still actively Digging: http://digg.com/users/Waldoze
  http://digg.com/users/drinet
  http://digg.com/users/mkirk
  http://digg.com/users/jkenzer
  http://digg.com/users/nickster
  http://digg.com/users/Anthony
  http://digg.com/users/dkurfurst
  http://digg.com/users/bnitro
  http://digg.com/users/CUBApete
  http://digg.com/users/martinhuard
• # of servers Digg had at launch: 1 (rented)
• # of servers Digg has today: 103
• # of stories submitted the first week: 923
• # of stories submitted last week: 15,412
• # of stories submitted (all-time): 1,001,865

via Digg Blog, Freaktitude