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breadpig was born at an undetermined point in 2005.
Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman were searching for a domain for their new startup. As if by swine intervention, they found the expired domain breadpig.com and knew they had to buy it. They eventually decided to call their startup reddit and the breadpig languished, waiting for its time. Succumbing to the delirium of startup life, Steve imagined a pig with bread wings and thus Alexis set to creating this mythical beast. Far from a divine creator, his first incarnation was not without its flaws (see version 1). Nonetheless, the breadpig's dogged spirit couldn't be weakened, even after the two friends lost the domain during a debacle known as "ReigsterFly is the worst registrar in the world." It was the longest year of their lives -- watching breadpig.com be defiled as a spam landing page for "bread makers" and "pig supplies." One day, guided by the spirit of the breadpig, Alexis checked in on the domain. It had been abandoned. Like a father reconciling with his long-lost son, the two were reuinted and breadpig was reborn. Breadpig, Inc. is an actual company founded by Alexis Ohanian with the goal of designing geeky things and doing some good. After all, the world needs a hero... 
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