Happy anniversary DailyKos | Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By: John
• May 27, 2009

I’m not sure how many Australians will be familiar with DailyKos, an enormously influential and highly trafficked politically liberal online community in the US.

DailyKos, frequently singled out by right wing commentators in the mainstream media for vitriolic abuse (which seems to only benefit DK), is an example of an extraordinary online community that has grown from literally nothing in only 7 years (it’s 7 years old today).

The very first post is still online. It’s interesting to see such humble beginnings become something so influential. Whether you agree with their politics or not you can’t but help marvel at what it has become. We live in the kind of times where that can happen, largely thanks to the web.

Just one of the many things that make me feel incredible privileged and fortunate to have stumbled on this web thing, 17 or so years ago.

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