The internet was originally created for military purposes, and later expanded to be a communications tool for researchers and the like. But we all know that the guys behind the project knew its ultimate goal was so folks could share awesome stuff on it.

And as soon as folks figured out how to make that work, Reddit came around and eventually so did r/Awesome. r/Awesome is a dedicated community, currently with around 1 million members, that shares everything that its members think is awesome.

Whether it’s something they found in real life or on the internet, something they themselves or their friends created, or even experiences of any caliber—it finds its way to this subreddit for everyone to partake in and enjoy.

We’ve gone through the subreddit in search of the best of the best things people found that just had to be shared, and compiled a list of them which you can find below. And if you’re going that way, give your favorites an upvote, comment, and share this article with your friends if you think your relationship with them is awesome.

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#1 Awesomeness!

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#2 After 10 Years Of Addiction, Prisons, And Rehabs, I Got My First Car With Credit, My Own Place, And My Dream Job At 30 Years Old!

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#3 This Guy Made These All Out Of Wood. They Have Movable And Removable Parts. Zoom In N Look At The Work Put Into Them. The Combine Alone Took Him 260 Hours To Make

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#4 Perfect Shot

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#5 Someone At My School Drew This On A White Board

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If you’ve been diligent in reading this article, you’ll already more or less know what r/Awesome is all about.

But in case you missed it, r/Awesome is a lovely part of Reddit (a social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website) that is dedicated to all things awesome.

No, seriously, there are effectively very few limitations as to what you can find there. The description says that it is a subreddit “for everything that is awesome!” and the only rule the moderators are asking folks to follow (apart from the technical no gore, no smut, and no screenshots requirement) is to post “things that are incredibly rare or cool, not some ordinary cats, chicken, scenery, drawings or t-shirts etc., they are not awesome…”

Sure, you can argue with the chicken part, but the content is ultimately up to the users to judge. More or less.

#6 What A Cool Dude

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#7 Ukrainian Soldier With Her Guardian Angel

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#8 Couple At Woodstock 48 Hours After They Met And 50 Years Later

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#9 A Handful Of Miniature Ceramic Watermelephants I Have Been Working On Recently

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#10 The Most Beautiful Animal I've Ever Seen. I Give You "Boogie" Resident Jaguar In The Tbilisi Zoo

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The subreddit was created on March 14th, 2008, meaning that it is just 6 months shy of its 15-year birthday (as of this article).

During this time, the subreddit has amassed an impressive 1 million members, with posts coming in on the daily.

And speaking of posts, its most popular submission thus far is from 5 years ago, honoring 15-year-old student Aitzaz Hasan, who tackled a suicide bomber to save his schoolmates from certain death. Currently, it has nearly 20,000 upvotes.

#11 The Door Is Real, The Rest Is Graffiti

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#12 Good Day Too

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#13 Beautiful Tri-Colored Dalmatian

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#14 Gold Bridge In Vietnam

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#15 Was Smashed When Bought Online...yes Or No?

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In general, the subreddit is home to mostly visual content. This ranges from people’s personal artistic endeavors and creations to feel-good and positive news to places people visited and were left in awe by to just regular memes and impressive things found around the internet.

Much of it has a positive twist to it—in the vein of restoring faith in humanity, or humans being bros to each other—but in other cases it will be things that most don’t see or even think about, a certain kind of new experience that is, at the very least, interesting and satisfying.

#16 "Hey, Why Is There A Hole In My Flower Gard...oh!"

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#17 Just Found This Throwback Of When A Wild Falcon Decided To Come And Hang Out With Me For A While. Had No Idea This Thing Could Shred My Finger To Pieces At The Time

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#18 Let's Do This!!

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#19 Just Finished The Ocean Resin Decor

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#20 Bonsai Tree Sold For $16,000 In Japan

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You can visit and even join the community here. But before you do that, please remember that we value every single upvote and comment (even if you can sometimes be a tad bit mean, but we love you anyway <3) so leave some for us and let us know of some awesome things you’ve seen, created, or experienced in the comment section below!