How Digg helped invent the social internet

There was some social activity showing up for the first time, where we saw people kind of coming together — Friendster was a big social network, and it was like, “Whoa, I can friend people and kind of see what they’re up to.” And that felt really different. We had email, obviously. We had walled gardens like AOL and all those other platforms that came before that were allowing us to chat. But not everyone was online, you know? It just wasn’t a thing.