Eighteen years old already? Happy birthday, rabble!

April 18, 2001. That's when it all started. rabble.ca was built on the efforts of progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across the country and has a unique role of reporting on stories from civil society while providing a counterbalance to corporate-owned media.

Back in 2001, online journalism was still in its infancy. In case you can't remember back that far or weren't born yet, here's a description of the internet at the turn of the century by Motherboard magazine – most Americans weren't on the internet (that would be true of Canada as well). Connections were dialup. And slow. Really slow.

MySpace was all the rage. Whatever happened to Myspace anyway?

A lot of those early internet spaces went the way of MySpace. But rabble.ca is still here. That's pretty amazing.

We've had thousands of contributors work with us, along with many staff and interns. Today we're going to hear from the people who put rabble together for you now, in 2019.

Happy Age of Majority, rabble.ca!

Image: rabble kittens say Happy Birthday. Because everybody clicks on kittens.

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