Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera works in his home office in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
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Techmeme celebrates two decades.
This tech news site remains popular for tech pros.
Unlike other content sites, Techmeme is growing its audience.
For tech news, we'd prefer you use ZDNET, but we know many of you turn to Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, or Hacker News. However, as Crazy Stupid Tech reports, "Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks worldwide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated-looking websites online:" Techmeme.
Techmeme is a technology news aggregator that launched in September 2005. Founded by Gabe Rivera, the site remains an independent, self-funded project and is widely recognized as an excellent source for real-time tech news summaries and discussion threads.
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Now, Techmeme is not a news site per se. Its tiny staff of three full-time editors and 23 part-time editors doesn't write news. They gather the site's stories from across the web in as close to real-time as possible and sort them by hotness and importance.
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