[edj]

I found out about about HN after I encountered Paul Graham's essays in the late 2000s.

I think I first saw a reference to PG on John Gruber's DaringFireball. I think this[1] may have been the link that first sent me to PG's essays.

I read all of the essays, up to that point, and then became curious about this thing called YCombinator, and this other thing called Hacker News. I lurked on HN for a while and finally started an account 1703 days ago, which was Monday, 14 September 2009.

1: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/02/18/graham