noteworthy events in reddit history
The reddit community has been involved in doing some rather noteworthy (and often good) things. Take note of them here. Please contribute.
* Mister Splashy Pants
* Shutting down auto-warranty robo callers
* Reunited son and his mother after 21 years
* Raised hundreds of dollars to send two redditors around the country for a month
* Enhanced surveillance footage to help a redditor identify the murderer of his friend's father
* FEEDaNEED - Online "Skill-raiser" where geeks donate their skills to non-profits they've voted on
* Helped out a redditor's failing soap business by buying a huge amount of soap from them
* The Cuil is born
* Trolling RE/MAX for their frivolous lawsuit
* Sending Helen Thomas flowers
* Outing Pepsi designers as 'breathtakingly' up their own asses
* Helps save Dusty the cat
* Sends a crowbar to CERN, saves world from headcrabs
* Hearing aid money donation
* Donating books to redditor's new classroom
* Epic thread (100 push-ups)
* Reddit scores interview with Mythbusters' Adam Savage
* Reddit scores interview with Senate hopeful Peter Schiff
* Reddit writes an episode of Family Guy
* Takes in a homeless guy, even though it doesn't work out
* Reddit assists P-Dub's mom
* Redditors give inthebackofyourhead christmas gifts, and fix his car
* Redditors draw castle attacking karate-frogs for miles_danish
* Redditors hold the largest secret santa the world has ever seen
* Dpressd thanks redditors for helping her solve a medical problem
* On October 27, 2009, reddit serves as the beginning of CSTART, an open source, community-driven project to send a redditor to the moon!
* Radio Reddit is born, broadcasting the music of Reddit artists and bands.
