Happy Birthday, Lifehacker: Our Best Posts from 2005 to 2009
The first Lifehacker post hit the tubes four years ago today. Since then, we've published thousands of tips, tricks, guides, and tools to streamline your life. Here's a brief history of Lifehacker, 2005 to 2009.
Below, we've taken a look back at all of our posts from 2005 to present and pulled out the five most popular posts of each year. Not all of them remain entirely relevant today, but they provide a nice overview of where we've been in the past, and hopefully may even introduce you to some older Lifehacker content that only our most dedicated readers may recognize. Let's get started. Photo by BohPhoto.
A Brief LHistory of 2005: In the early days of 2005, our legendary editor emeritus Gina Trapani first opened the Lifehacker floodgates, unleashing onto unsuspecting readers a bountiful array of tips and tricks the likes of which the world had never seen. By fall of '05, Lifehacker brought on its second and third editors. By November of '05, yours truly joined the Lifehacker fold. By the end of the year, Lifehacker had been quoted by the New York Times, named one of Time magazine's 50 Coolest Web Sites of 2005, and landed on oh-so-many more lists. It was a year of considerable growing pains, a whole lot of imageless text, and some considerably cool hacks, including the following five most popular posts of 2005:
