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You’re looking at the first known record of RateBeer with a logo still visible, courtesy of The Internet Archive. This page is from July 21, 2001, and showcases the site a little more than a year after it began. However, the earliest known record is actually from August 19, 2000, when there were a whopping 3,143 ratings in the database. Not to mention that at that time, the beer with the most ratings was… Budweiser…with 34. Eight years later, the number of ratings has skyrocketed to 1,790,546. Come take a mini-journey through history as we visit the site’s roots.
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