Tech & Culture
The Rise, Fall, and Zombie Resurrection of Digg: The Social News Site That Almost Broke the Internet
Before Reddit became the front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy social news site that dominated the mid-2000s web and then spectacularly imploded. Here's the wild, messy, surprisingly fascinating story of how Digg rose to glory, lost everything in one catastrophic update, and kept trying to claw its way back.
Mar 12, 2026