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Re:HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006) by ffpip on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:46AM (#26076376)
What does the "&birth=pg" at the end of the URL stand for? I know pg is Paul Graham, but removing the "&birth=" parameter doesn't change the page
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Re:HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006) by TechBro8615 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:28AM (#26077833)
Maybe a way to avoid the duplicate filter, as I'm sure this URL has been submitted before.
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Re:HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006) by grinich on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:39AM (#26079511)
I actually found the link by going to pg's profile and clicking the created date. You can try it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

Curiously the "birth" param doesn't seem to work by itself. Maybe a HN bug? e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?birth=pg is the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/front

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