In anticipation of the next version of Habrahabr, under the working title Supergame, let's look into its past. As is known, it appeared almost two years ago, in June 2006. During this time, much has changed on this project, starting from its design (old-school notebook layout
deniskin Deniskin and perl-engine
geraxe ) and to its atmosphere (as many people notice, not for the better, due to the growth of its audience). And although I personally started visiting the site almost from the very beginning (thanks to you,
News2 ), a lot has already been forgotten. For example, his very first topics. Well, let's try to find out where Habr begins.
To do this, look at the bottom of the main page and see us listlist:

Click on the arrow, and now, we are on the
very first page . Having rewound the page down, we see that the very first was, it turns out, a message from the
inner voice , which literally told the world the following:
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A controversial statement, but we leave it on the conscience of its author. Yeah, and here is the first post, an interview by Deniskin
“Vladislav Ulendeev”: “We are creating a separate holding with two owners: eHouse and Rambler” .
In the comments we see interesting inscriptions in the style of “Vasya was here”:



We look at the date: July 19, 2006 18:11. Why is July, not June? Maybe the listalka has a time limit, or by type of post?
Let's look at the history of
all Deniskin topics . Yeah, the first topic is different: “
Softkey bought 25% of Telesa.Tv shares ” dated June 27, 2006.
This is more like the truth, but check it out. Go to the
blogs section and find the list there:

Oh, and there will be more pages here. We go
to the beginning and now, the very first post in the same news line: "
Mail.ru and Yandex have concluded a strategic agreement " by
gameboyhippo .
In principle, this is logical, since earlier only Habraredaccion could write to this tape, which is what the blog description says:
“Once, after Habrarevolution, the news feed stopped being a tape. It has become a collective blog — for all people with positive karma .
”But wait, post date: January 16, 2006 21:02. And how can this be, if Habr appeared in June? Check, go to the
gameboyhippo profile, and see:
Juan Ramon
Registered: July 1, 2006 22:23
Registered in July, and the first post wrote in January? And what does that mean? Well, if
gameboyhippo Juan Ramon is not one of the virtual habraredaktsii, I can assume that at the time of the creation of the site this person was bought (or simply invited) by Deniskin along with the “luggage” of his news (however, both the first topic and many subsequent ones are almost verbatim press releases), and the illusion of fullness site before its opening there have placed all of this material in accordance with the dates of his writing
(though, I then remembered that the old version was incomprehensible Habra field when posting a topic with date and time publishing - and perhaps these topics have been published just in hindsight later).So where is
the very first topic on Habré? And here he is:
“ Development continues! » By
geraxe . Then, on June 24, 2006, he was not yet visible on the open Internet.
And, for a snack, the first posts from different sections of Habr:
Podcast : “
Pilot Release. blin.com "by
bobuk .
Questions and answers : “
What will happen if a UFO arrives and takes away all our programmers?” »By
deniskin .
Translations : “
Web 2.0 will end privacy ” by
Yulia_Dakina .
PS And this is
how Habr looked like on July 3, 2006, a few days after its opening.
PS After two years, Habr has corrected himself and now the very first topic is right on the arrow from the main page (currently it is here ):