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[–] RabidRaccoon 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

In 2005, for their senior year spring break, Huffman convinced Ohanian to road trip up to Boston to see Graham talk about entrepreneurship. Ohanian screwed up the courage to ask Graham out for beers because, well, why not? He accepted, and maybe because of Ohanian’s charisma, or maybe because Huffman’s grasp of code showed promise, he invited them to apply for a new startup incubator he was launching, Y Combinator. They raced back to Charlottesville to develop their business plan.

They didn’t get in. At least not on their original idea, which was called My Mobile Menu and involved ordering food by SMS. But Graham invited the pair to return to Boston for a brainstorming session, and by the end of an hour together, they’d come up with the idea for Reddit: the front page of the Internet! As part of the first Y Combinator class, they spent a summer building it—and playing World of Warcraft (they both hit level 60). Huffman and Ohanian were collectively the first 100 users, setting up multiple accounts and posting and upvoting links to demonstrate Reddit was being used. It wasn’t so different from college that way: you didn’t want to show up at a party if no one else was there.

So they didn't actually invent Reddit until they had a brainstorming session with Paul Graham.