Digital Culture
The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Digg: A Story of the Early Internet's Most Ambitious Experiment
Before social media algorithms ruled our online lives, a scrappy news aggregator called Digg gave everyday internet users the power to decide what the world read. Its rise was meteoric, its fall was dramatic, and its story remains one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the American internet.
Mar 12, 2026