Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Tunanin da farkon ci gaban Reddit ya samo asali ne daga abokan zama na kwaleji Steve Huffman da Alexis Ohanian a 2005. Huffman da Ohanian sun halarci wani lacca da mai tsara shirye-shirye Paul Graham a Boston, Massachusetts, yayin hutun bazara daga Jami'ar Virginia. Bayan ya yi magana da Huffman da Ohanian bayan lacca, Graham ya gayyaci su biyu su yi amfani da shi zuwa ga mai farawa mai farawa Y Combinator. Tunanin su na farko, My Mobile Menu, bai yi nasara ba, kuma an yi niyyar ba masu amfani damar yin odar abinci ta hanyar saƙon rubutu na SMS. A lokacin wani taro don gabatar da wani farawa, an ƙirƙiri ra'ayin abin da Graham ya kira "shafin farko na Intanet". Don wannan ra'ayin, an karɓi Huffman da Ohanian a cikin aji na farko na Y Combinator. Tare da tallafi daga Y Combinator, Huffman ya tsara shafin a cikin Common Lisp kuma tare da Ohanian sun ƙaddamar da Reddit a watan Yunin 2005. Tsakanin Nuwamba 2005 da Janairu 2006, Reddit ya haɗu da kamfanin Infogami na Aaron Swartz, kuma Swartz ya zama mai mallakar daidai da kamfanin mahaifiyar da aka samu, Ba A Bug ba. Huffman da Ohanian sun sayar da Reddit ga Condé Nast Publications, mai mallakar Wired, a ranar 31 ga Oktoba, 2006, don rahoton dala miliyan 10 zuwa dala miliyan 20 kuma ƙungiyar ta koma San Francisco. A cikin Janairu 2007, an kori Swartz saboda dalilan da ba a bayyana ba. Huffman da Ohanian sun bar Reddit a cikin 2009. Huffman ya ci gaba da kafa Hipmunk tare da Adam Goldstein, kuma daga baya ya ɗauki Ohanian da Slowe zuwa sabon kamfanin sa. Bayan Huffman da Ohanian sun bar Reddit, Erik Martin, wanda ya shiga kamfanin a matsayin manajan al'umma a 2008 kuma daga baya ya zama babban manajan a 2011, ya taka rawa a ci gaban Reddit. VentureBeat ya lura cewa Martin "yana da alhakin kiyaye shafin yana gudana" a ƙarƙashin ikon mallakar Condé Nast. Martin ya sauƙaƙe sayen Kyaututtukan Reddit kuma ya jagoranci ayyukan sadaka. Reddit ya ƙaddamar da hanyoyi daban-daban na talla a shafin a cikin 2009. Kamfanin ya ƙaddamar da abubuwan tallafi da dandamali na tallace-tallace kai tsaye a wannan shekarar. Reddit... da kuma  Tambaya: A wace shekara aka kirkiro Reddit?
Shekarar 2005