Wow, I remember reading the post of the creator of imgur that he made it specifically for reddit use. Then at some point they made it into this social platform and removed directly linking to images (or at least made it quite hard).
Now this, interesting to see a site from day 1 coming up and (probably) going down.
I don't know if any evidence exists anymore to properly back this up, but I've heard that the creator first went to Digg with the same claim about making it for them.
Now this, interesting to see a site from day 1 coming up and (probably) going down.