Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Digg founder Kevin Rose are backing the deal, with the new Digg to be led by CEO Justin Mezzell.

If your eye, like ours, gets to twitching any time big-money tech types start talking about how A.I. is going to improve the “old” internet, then here’s one that might get the ball jiggling right out of the socket: Early internet mainstay Digg is getting a reboot,

The once-popular link recommendation platform is coming back to tap the goldmine that is real human discussions.

Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platforms — social media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian — are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of artificial intelligence.