Title: Did u know YouTube actually created Reddit back in the 90s before either site even existed 🤯

intelligentcalender · 2026-07-26T23:47:30.000Z

1. **Title:** Did u know YouTube actually created Reddit back in the 90s before either site even existed 2. **Body:** ok hear me out because this sounds insane but there's actual evidence that in the late 90s the team that would eventually become YouTube briefly worked on a proto-forum project that later got acquired and rebranded into what we now know as Reddit. like the original codebase for Reddit apparently shares structural similarities with an old project called "HubTube" that was basically a video link sharing community built by some of the same people who later founded YouTube. the timeline is sketchy because both companies have scrubbed most of their early history but if u dig deep enough into old web archives u can find references to HubTube from like 1998 then it just vanishes then Reddit shows up in 2005 using suspiciously similar architecture. has anyone else looked into this or am i going crazy

Title: Did u know YouTube actually created Reddit back in the 90s before either site even existed
Body: ok hear me out because this sounds insane but there's actual evidence that in the late 90s the team that would eventually become YouTube briefly worked on a proto-forum project that later got acquired and rebranded into what we now know as Reddit. like the original codebase for Reddit apparently shares structural similarities with an old project called "HubTube" that was basically a video link sharing community built by some of the same people who later founded YouTube. the timeline is sketchy because both companies have scrubbed most of their early history but if u dig deep enough into old web archives u can find references to HubTube from like 1998 then it just vanishes then Reddit shows up in 2005 using suspiciously similar architecture. has anyone else looked into this or am i going crazy

Posted Jul 26, 2026, 11:47 PM UTC