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He called his site Infinitechan, which later came to be known as 8chan because the figure 8 is the symbol for infinity flipped. The board got little attention until , when 4chan started cracking down on posts about GamerGate , a controversy over video game culture's treatment of women that became an online proxy for the culture wars.
Brennan sniffed an opportunity and banged the drum for users to head to 8chan. They did. The surge in traffic caught the attention of Watkins, who had acquired 2chan from Nishimura in Watkins and Brennan worked together on 8chan from the Philippines until , when Brennan disassociated himself from the site. He's since called for the site to be shut down.
In a statement to the committee published Wednesday, Watkins said he has "no intention of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech. Bennie G. Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of the committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican from Alabama and ranking member of the committee, released a statement Thursday following Watkins' deposition. Watkins for his cooperation today," the Congressmen said in a press release. We look forward to his continued cooperation with the Committee as he indicated his desire to do so during today's deposition.
It receives more than 27 million unique visitors per month, and it's ranked in the world's top 1, websites, according to analytics site Alexa. And there are many other derivative chan boards, such as Endchan, 7chan and Dreamchan. None match 4chan's popularity, but some have active, if small, communities. Visiting a chan site is usually harmless. Still, it's best to proceed with caution. Some users disguise links in their posts that might take you to a site that infects your computer.
There's also a possibility of coming across disturbing content. So exercise common sense when browsing through posts.
Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Oscar Gonzalez. CNET A rash of postings that may be related to mass shootings has put a spotlight on loosely moderated forums known as chan boards or image boards.
Here's what you need to know about these chan or image boards and the people who use them. Who's the typical poster? Why are chan boards controversial? On March , a Japanese teenager called RIR6 Taichirou Kosugi founds world2ch, a textboard hosted on US servers, with the aim of making a multi-language site for users of English and Japanese speakers. While the project became well-known on 2ch itself, the anonymous textboard format never really appealed to Westerners, due to the general preference of vanity over content Edition 1.
Additionally, westerners were used to the accounts and one-click smileys of conventional forums. Still, the board was a groundbreaking first in the export of the 2channel-style anonymous BBS.
Many later influential names started out or at least passed by this site. RIR6 had a rather basic understanding of English, and communication between the English speakers and the Japanese was very poor, but they managed.
One particular meme stands above all: A crazed, engrish talking Japanese called Golgomois would come to the site demanding the Americans to remove their bases from Okinawa. The Americans in the site would come to outnumber the Japanese. They managed to convince RIR6 to open an imageboard and make various fixes. He makes two, these would be effectively the first western imageboards, and rather, the first western populated ones.
Ultimately, after 4chan was founded, RIR6 lost interest and botched several fixes, making the site unnavigable, and eventually closed it on The userbase, most of its members already browsing both world2ch and 4chan, would flock to the latter. These would be all the sites and communities that had a hand in the creation of 4chan proper. Eventually, by the end of September, moot jokingly registers 4chan. Jokes aside, he gets to thinking. The site introduces a simple and free method of communication that Something Awful users have always dreamed of.
Thanks to that, 4chan quickly rose beyond the tired, old site. Many users from Something Awful used 4chan to vent their frustration with the site. After years of being on sites like SA, GameFAQs or Newgrounds, which had a very restrictive moderation in terms of allowed content and expression, the nearly complete freedom of 4chan was a breath of fresh air. It led the young 4channers to post all manners of things, like ironically pretending to be 13 years old Otakus Something that would get you banned on ADTRW, even if it was ironic.
The most problematic content being Lolicon and guro. Those boards would later give him a lot of problems regarding hosting, and would end up on a separate site called not4chan, hosted by a friend of moot, ultimately disassociating from 4chan. They quickly began to protest and make some petty attempts at raiding, but a personal visit from moot quickly calmed down the situation, ending it with some friendly advice from both sides.
Thus endeth the first western chan war. Their first host dropping them would be due to a bug that made users load thumbnails as if they were full sized images, effectively increasing bandwidth to enormous levels.
Due to the enormous bandwidth costs, moot just barely manages to keep the site alive, through ads or donations. The controversial content becomes a major point of contention, forcing 4chan out of hosting at least 3 times. The Beginnings of the Chanverse 4chan was not the first imageboard, the tittle belongs to world2ch. And neither of them would be alone for long.
All these source codes allowed for the creation of a myriad smaller chans. The first alternative imageboard was probably 1chan, founded by thatdog while he tested futallaby with moot, housing only one unique board, trains, which still lives to this day. The most important sites would be iichan Idlechan , a site created when 4chan died on June , which eventually died and became WAKAchan, an interesting concept where users would host boards on their own servers and link each other under the same banner, and 5chan, originally created by BarnacleED, it was home to the kind of Otakus ADTRW hated.
He closed it when moot personally visited their IRC. It required registration, was barely populated and had a wide range of pornographic boards. TheRowan used rather dirty tactics for the day, including selling mailing lists. He succeeded, effectively cutting moot off donation money and forcing him to take the site down. While 5chan died shortly after, WAKAchan and iichan gave birth a whole net of imageboards extending into the modern Russian chanverse, some of which still live to this day.
Other minor chans where the original 7chan, a very short-lived site that lasted a few days, and 8chan founded by WTSnacks. Although very small amount of users were actually racist, to them it was just comedy.
The Golden Age of 4chan Aug — Sept On August 7, moot gathers a group of friends and contributors and starts 4chan again. Though not excellent, there was an increased efficiency when it came to moderation and scripting, commandeered by Team4chan. In a reactionary move towards the rise of 4chan, Lowtax makes mentioning the site a bannable offense, whilst simultaneously engaging in a crusade towards anything resembling pedophilia, such as anime girls.
The increasing oppression coming from the moderators creates a constant flow of banned users fleeing to 4chan. Once Moot grows up to legally visit his own site, he is 16 at this point , he slowly opens up to the 4chan community.
According to a poll, which some claimed was fake, the age median drops from colleague age, to high-school freshman, this did not mean, however, that the presence of underage anons was unheard of. It is an interesting counterexample to the rise of social media occurring at the same time. Some of the original users begin to thin out as they lost interest, but are just as quickly replaced by SA refugees and immigrants from sites like YTMND, Fark, and to the disgrace of many 4channers, Gaia Online.
Bored even from the basic Internet and its drama and gore, they flocked in looking for the obscene, the bizarre and the transgressive, the silly and absurd, the self-referencing injokes and crazy ramblings.
The lack of registration process felt truly innovative and funny, so they began to see just how far they can go in that direction. This could be safely considered the best period for 4chan. All boards enjoyed a degree of content and an active and present moderation7. Many users had decent Photoshop abilities, inherited from the highly-skilled SA goons, and most of the classic memes and events took form during this period.
Anyone could make a thread, bookmark it, and come back the next day to see it was still there. However, there also was a lot of drama regarding tripcode users and mods, who, back then, were allowed to possess a tripcode.
Discussion tended to range from civilized, concise posts While serious debate happens all the time, actual, calm discussion of a topic is something rarely seen on modern days to ridiculous ALL CAPS sentences.
Snacks and Shii, and the rise of the underaged Allyson to mod status. This is seen by many anons as a harbinger of impending doom. Its traffic doubled its follow up boards, a trend that would continue until the end of the decade. During this era, the inexperienced 4chan community gets it first take at Internet warfare in the coalition attack against EbaumsWorld for its plagiarism and malicious tendencies8.
The Admin overreacted and locked down the forums, and the site eventually died. The thread was popular enough to merit the birth of a tradition that would be performed with bolder and bolder antics with each passing month. The massive increase of threads proportionally increased the rate of thread deletion.
While this belief could not be farther from the truth, the cynical ideal quickly became a major tenet of 4chan culture9.
During those days it was common to see various communities bickering because another one stole their content. EbaumsWorld was the first site to do it en masse and without regard of consequences, which prompted unprecedented retaliation from most of the big players of the era and a young 4chan tagging along.
A Something Awful user even made a flash song about it. The reaction against newfags was brought when people did not get the way the memes were done and essentially screwed up. Most of these groups are given their own boards to keep them out of the other ones, but curiously, Furries have not.
A persecution complex causes them to react badly to criticism, and minor distaste evolves into total hatred that threatens to destroy the boards. Being so sensible, 4chan decided to do the sane thing and banned furries since day one. The board began a series of organized raids against many sites, included but not limited to: Fandom most notoriously ZeldaUniverse , Christian, Pro-Ana, and sites for people with disabilities. June saw the total destruction of the Zelda Guide Forums and Naruto-kun.
On august 16 Canadian Tom Green gets raided at his own talk show, which would become a sort of tradition. With an ever increasing growth, and a series of continuous raids to different people, like the Hal Turner and Tom Green raids, 4chan ended up with a Fox News coverage and a minor G4 one of Anonymous. With Fox News being Fox News, it was terribly inaccurate and sensationalistic.
However, the next day proved to be somewhat different than planned. They just began diversifying towards topics other than anime.
During one memorable moment, Lowtax crated a furry board, waited for it to be filled with furry goons, and permabanned them all. The sticky, made by moot himself, it met with nothing short of an outrage. Dissent was an alltime high, even in the moderation ranks, which led to the thread being deleted, remade and constantly stickied and unstickied.
When the stickies appeared, they retaliated until 4chan's img server crashed and a plethora and boards with it. The boards that benefited the most where a revived 7chan and a revitalized chan. This event foreshadowed what would become of imageboard culture during the following years. Ironically, during the following Dark Age, the other chans' diffusion of 4chan memes around the Internet will only solidify its position as the ultimate center of Internet culture. The prohibition on raids also strengthened the raid mentality of those who were banned.
The period between and marked rapid change on 4chan, as more and more people explored the site in curiosity. Post speed increased dramatically and the ways of posting changed. It was also a time of uncertainty — Anything could happen. Sometimes 4chan jokes even got on TV. It was a chaotic times where one could truly feel anything could happen.
On the rest of the site, things were calm and cozy. It was housed by many sites during the years, and had many splinter groups such as Partyvan, ultimately becoming Raidchan. This period was characterized by a lot of interboard conflict and hacker activity, with many groups cheerfully DDOSing each other.
On January 27, , the great chan death of happened. Already demoralized by the similar events of November 7, 4chan has a power failure and goes offline, anons scoured the Internet looking for a worthy candidate to inherit the crown of the hubsite of Anonymous, but to no avail.
Each of the other major chans were not available. Many minor sites went down due to the sudden surge of traffic, sometimes permanently. Though not very consequential, since most of the important sites Edition 1.
Both sites died, and there was no invasion board for a while, until they returned. However this new iteration did not last long, due to protests from a new wave of users, borne out of Project Chanology achieving mainstream recognition. Months later they would split, with a very weakened chan retaining the board. Freechan would slowly replace the site as HQ of the insurgency, but the site died during October Following an exponential growth, there was a massive surge of newcomers during the American summer.
This time, quality of content dropped massively, many users came from notoriously annoying sites such as AnimeZuki and Gaia Online. Even more came in expecting to find a hacker paradise. The age median lowered, going underage. Many aspects of 4chan culture, like GETs, completely disintegrated. The Raid culture was severely distorted from coordinated raids to simple zerg rushes of spam and memes, losing an important part of their effectiveness. Not long before this, increased migration to and from 4chan had pushed its culture memes into the forefront of Internet fame.
Something Awful users emulating 4chan's Caturday sparked Eric Nakagawa to create I can haz cheezburger, which began, and later monetized, the meme industry outside of 4chan. On the fledging site Youtube, 4chan users popularized Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain and created an adaptation of the Duckroll for video, known as the Rickroll.
The Rickroll would later become the most definitive meme of the era. Newfags come in expecting a hacker playground, and after the Fox News report on Edition 1. The rise of the meme industry produced unwanted interest in the site that created it all.
Project Chanology — On January , a well-known video of Tom Cruise going crazy on a Scientology training video was censored on Youtube by the Church of Scientology.
The coming events came to be known as Project Chanology, resulting in major victories over Scientologists. On January 28, Mark Bunker made a video congratulating anonymous on its fight against scientology but suggested them it would be more efficient to stage actual IRL protests.
The use of large IRL protests and mass media coverage due to these protests brought forth another massive wave of new users to 4chan, even dwarfing the newfag summer. It is regarded by many to be the time 4chan hit rock bottom, the time where they began to lose control of the direction they were heading.
As time went on, the initial enthusiasm for the raid wore off, and participants of Project Chanology realized that 4chan was not the best place for organized assault. Though still regarded as the Internet Hate Machine, anonymous is seen showing better lights for the first time. This period was probably the closest 4chan has ever been to being shut down permanently. There were running rumors claiming that 4chan had a total of dollars in debt Which was later confirmed in a newspost in , to this day I have no idea how the hell he managed to pay all that.
He also put forth actual pornographic ads, something he absolutely hates, in a desperate move to alleviate Edition 1. By the end of , Project Chanology has long faded with only a few stalwart holdouts and the majority of Anonymous re-assimilates into 4chan within a few months. Most memes of the era failed to take off, all raids were uncoordinated at best and a complete failure at worst. Such thing could explain the reason he stopped making newsposts and his presence on the site diminished greatly.
Normal users, tired of both sides, took down the entire site in a major DDoS and mods began to ban all Boxxy-related posts. Their work was undermined by their radical tendencies, and support eventually broke down. The year is characterized by the rise of Reddit, a major news and content aggregator that rose to power after the Digg Revolt, when a revamped hub led to an exodus from the site. Reddit's mainstream popularity and strong cultural influence from 4chan created a unique relationship between the two.
Culturally, 4chan was a shadow of its former self. They would sometimes spam forced memes that ultimately would become accepted by the community and generally became a funnier crowd to be around.
If it ever wants to. From then on, almost all actions performed against any organization or government that attempted against free speech, piracy or relevant matter would suffer attacks made by hacktivist groups, all claiming to be part of anonymous. With Operation Payback 4chan would slowly fade out from being the main cause of most Internet warfare, with various groups taking the spotlight. Since 4chan was constantly filled with spam, uninteresting threads, and trolls the media ended up separating the site from anonymous entirely.
The situation escalated to the point where Jessi and his family were interviewed at Good Morning America! This year is marked as a turning point on 4chan culture. The other boards, smaller in size compared to the giant began to see a steady amount of growth in terms of userbase. Meme Faces, the Second Newfag Summer Late — Early On the late s cellphone market was making huge leaps in size and technology.
By everyone and their grandmas had access to a cellphone and an Internet connection, and all those people spent their free time, during job breaks, waiting for the bus, or simply in their houses, browsing the Internet. The turn of the decade marked a vast change for the Internet. More and more memes and events were broadcasted by the old media. The Internet began to reach new corners, especially with new and more efficient Smarthphones and Apple products.
Now that everyone is connected the Internet became truly mainstream, with Relatively new faces such as Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit and Facebook becoming massively popular, attracting much of the youth culture.
Every three years or so as the site got more popular the userbase of 4chan would be completely unrecognizable from what it was before. The site I can haz cheezburger, which managed to successfully monetize meme culture, spawned a series of content aggregators with a simple model which became notoriously popular with the rise and consolidation of the social sites Reddit, Twitter and Facebook.
These sites became known for utilizing and popularizing the rage comic format, along with many of the rage faces and trollface variants that existed. It contained a particular hilarious MS Paint face of total rage, and eventually people got around making panel comics ending with the mentioned rage face.
The old userbase never left, but was easily outnumbered by the new twitter-addicted youth. Allegedly the movement had its origins on Something Awful; where Lowtax, who stopped caring about the site long ago put a radical feminist as second in command, making the stupidly elitist and closed-minded community even more elitist and closed-minded. This is quite saddening, since SA is one of the fathers of western Internet culture. Culturally the average user of 4chan has radically changed his attitude.
They also became much more interested discussion, debate and creating content for 4chan even though people with actual Photoshop, coding or drawing skills are few and far between. While not worse than the previous ages, 4chan lost some its passion for black comedy and transgression, and users take most things others say personally. Anonymous was not excluded, and it culminated with massive protests, a black-out were even sites like Wikipedia participated in for a day, and DDOS attacks to most US government sites.
The law was eventually rejected but another, weaker version was proposed and a similar one was also projected in the European Union. To this day most governments and organizations continue to attempt to censor and control the Internet, but the hacktivist anonymous still puts up some fight. Though not without its problems, many semi-popular boards suffer from spam due to various events that destabilized them Andrew W.
CP threads are no more, spam is almost inexistent, and the oldest users seem to be returning. However this small period of peace soon proved to be little more than an ephemeral activity. Oct With the issue of bronies quelled, and new coder desuwa working constantly on the inline extension, among other ideas such as an inline catalog, the last part of proved to be one of improvements.
Before, all users have to do was to be patient and eventually good threads would arise. Nowadays that idea seems to be a distant possibility. All this managed was to increase the popularity of the JIDF17 meme to them.
It was already notorious before this happened for being the Jewish equivalent of Stormfront. Finally, a mod took note of all the information and vowed to direct it to moot The whole debacle ended up becoming just another way for posters to maintain and rationalize their idealized idea of their favourite board. All was good and the general opinion of the board was positive.
Knowing the lifespan of the board was potentially short its new userbase quickly decided to create as much OC as possible. A reaction face of a Shiba dog with a concerned look and silly, broken dog speak in comic sans that quickly spread over all 4chan and the entire of the Internet. It got so popular it managed to get its own cryptocurrency by A full list of the staff logged in the janitor IRC, janiteam, was gathered. The meme also appeared on Reddit before surfacing from 4chan, but it was also a very small subreddits.
Whenever a big event happened a sticky would be created on its respective board until the hype wore out, or to squelch an over exited general. October 1st, would be a quite iconic day on the short-term memory of 4chan. All in all, 4chan seems has reached a point of relative stability, where most boards have bursts of inspiration and create great things, from memes, to games, art and even music.
Moot may have failed his startups canv. However, something many people ignore, is that such things have been said constantly since day one. Except for the originfags, all generations of 4channers will have their forerunners telling them they are the cancer that killed their favourite boards. If we look all the time such things have been said, we form a small argument: 4chan sports a liquid, perpetually evolving culture.
While not all of them leave, the remaining users are too small in number to properly educate or assimilate the incoming, ever increasing userbase. The opposite happens, and the old userbase is assimilated by the limited understanding of the new userbase.
They mostly used 4chan as an image dump, and usually for silly jokes. A tendency for transgression and stupidity, two things heavily shunned by the ban happy SA community, were always present on the board. Often, a 4channer would just dump images on a thread, and the coding was so flunky that sometimes images were managed to be uploaded after another image was posted and uploaded.
In some boards, discussion was banned in its entirety. One of their most characteristic traits was a never ending curiosity for the morbid. Many Edition 1. There were big fans of mega threads and roleplaying, such as playing along in Epic Fail Guy threads or setting huge things like the pickle surprise post.
Their knack for shooping would be noticeable on every big meme or event that happened. For every original image there would be three or four slightly retouched variants.
They also had a prominent troll mentality. Whenever they found anyone that could easily fall for troll bait, they would milk them to no end.
The first recorded raid was the Bibliocality raid, which ended up with the forums permanently closed. Discussion about all topics abounded, usually filled with lies and trolling. They spent a lot of time arguing, fighting and at the same time idolizing the oldfags, and while they tried to do the same things they did, their sheer laziness and tendency to take raids and OC for granted made them accomplish little.
They were mostly known for cheap trolling attempts, copypasta spamming Which was probably the most produced OC of the era , zerg rushes instead of raids and considering the mods a force that could not get in their way. This people was commonly referred to as raidfags, and later moralfags. They disappeared as soon as Chanology ended, since image boards were too hostile for them.
It was a generation with no real strong opinions on anything. They mostly tagged along to whatever crazy shenanigans others were up to.
Eventually such threads would begin to saturate the board and came to be shunned by the userbase, but there seemed to be no way to stop it. Casuals look and act like what you would expect of the average American teenager and young adult. They like to talk and share personal experiences, such as bizarre events in their life and sexual conquests and exploits, and green text stories are probably their biggest contribution as of yet.
They lash out against anything openly hostile or dark, labelling it as edgy. They have a big tendency to jump in and give strong opinions about something without actually bothering to check their facts. Most of them have little to no skills, depending of the mercy of the few photoshoopers and coders the site may be at the time.
He closes it soon after. With the intention of sharing CP and discussing technology and warez, Ayashii World was entirely dedicated to Japanese Geek culture. Its user flocked to Ayashii World, and the discussion topics shifted from CP to less morally upsetting things. Dec 26, - Eventually, the shift in the populace led Shiba to divide Ayashii into two BBS, one called 97 for popular topics and another called , for hacking and technology.
Gesus carried on invasions, mass trolling and hacking. There a group of the same name discussed and conducted website hackings and invasions. By this time, many similar anonymous BBSes are formed, collectively called Nanashii Warudo Nameless World , they develop a culture based on memes. Ayashii World functions as the hubsite of the Nanashii World in a similar way to how 4chan would later function as the hubsite of Anonymous. AW's popularity increases exponentially.
March 26, — Kenjinkai shuts down, some claim Ayashii had something to be with it. Ayashii proceeds to use its own servers. By this point, Ayashii World becomes a household name and many other sites are created under its name. I mixed all timelines into a single one, put it up to date, and added some information I discovered via Google-fu and other sources.
Consider this the most complete But far from exhaustive timeline currently online. Its userbase exceeds at image collages and the site becomes a fad on the Japanese Internet. Alice creating an auto-posting script and using it to spam Ayashii. The threat of lawsuit gets Shiba to shut the site down. The Ayashii World sites would grow exponentially, as the Japanese become more accepting of the Internet, and things become more chaotic. Sept 3, — Shiba abruptly brings Ayashii World to an end, citing in his final posts that the site has grown too hostile to contain.
Sept 6, - The Ayashii World is left core-less and in disarray. They need a replacement. They get their replacement with Amezo, the First Channel, ran by Amezou-shi. Its popularity increases exponentially and it soon one of the main BBSs. Sept 20, — Shiba announces he will be quitting the Ayashii World for good and leaves, with many sister sites to Ayashii closing their doors soon after.
Sept 29, — Shiba founds Magmania, one of the first Japanese personal review sites, a new start from scratch after Ayashii. Alice, still angered at being doxed and ridiculed, pressures him declaring an official apology on the BBS and via phone. This would lead to Shiba to quit the Internet for good. Alice would continue to raid anyone who defending Shiba. Reluctantly, most Ayashii BBSs complied. Alice has never admitting committing any kind of pressure towards Shiba, though the evidence was blatant.
Honten removes the tag after announcing that Alice had gotten hold of their password and access codes. REBIRTH endures several DDOSs and raids, but eventually manages to surpass Honten in size, mainly thanks to an ads campaign and the introduction of anime logo, which attracted several Otakus, previously shunned by Shiba and the userbase.
Its administrator, Mr. This would be the last BBS whose influence would have any impact on the culture 2ch and 2chan would come to have. Rifts between Shiba fundamentalists and the other Ayashii Worlders would continue for a while.
May 30, - Mr. It used code based on the first, with enough servers this time to handle the exponential growth.
Due to the differences between userbases, Ayashii Worlders, which remain mainly geeks regard 2channelers with animosity. Meanwhile, on the western hemisphere, Lowtax creates Something Awful. Oct 10, — Amezo BBS shuts down due to vandalism. It being one of the very few floating thread BBS, many users try to keep the system alive by creating other sites, but they eventually flock to 2ch.
Later, Hiroyuki admits having raided Amezo persistently. Amezo, angry and jealous at 2ch, allies with Mr. However it was not successful, as posting standards where strict and they would later charge a fee to post. There were also rumours that the Yakuza threatened Amezo RL.
Oct — Conflicts between 2ch and the Ayashii World reach their boiling point when both sites plan for mass raid campaigns. Hiroyuki, realizing how much he fucked up, appeared that the same thread and apologized. The raids and trolling slowly went down, but the animosity between Ayashii World and 2ch already turned into hate, and it was now taboo to speak about 2ch on Ayashii World sites.
AGSstar comes to speak to him. Aug, 30, - 2ch is in danger of dying, so a backup forum is created, called Futaba or 2chan two-leaves. The site supports images and develops a unique culture all its own, growing out of the seed culture brought by the 2channelers. There, a 14 Edition 1. At first, it supported text only. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time. Later, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard.
He makes two, officially becoming the first western imageboards. World2ch is discovered and posted on said thread, gaining a steady influx of English speaking users. September 29 - moot registers 4chan.
September Moot announces 4chan. In three hours of creating the contest, around 50 banners are submitted, after which moot decides to simply make it so that it would cycle through the best banners randomly every time a page was loaded. After some drama moot ended up befriending them. Killing it for the first time. October 21 - 4chan.
October 29 — The site is back online. Both of these were fixed within the day by modifying the anti-spam script and fixing the imageboards'. November 2 - moot resets img. The same day, thatdog registers 1chan. November 20 — At some point, hosting switched from Colo to Apex, however Apex tells moot that 4chan has to go. Hosting then passes to GoDaddy. November 22 - The site returns following two days of downtime after the server is reformatted to RH9, making the site considerably faster.
The next day, the RH9 apt-get repository was cleared out, causing GIFs not to be thumbnailed correctly for a few hours. November 28 — moot announces downtime to fix some problems. Staff member DJ Lucid managed to fix every single problem without needing to reformat the servers.
December 17 - moot blocks all Japanese domains from accessing the site, significantly reducing 4chan's server bill while maintaining the same level of contribution. Apparently, moot says that in the two weeks before the announcement, Japanese domains had accounted for GB but only made about fifty posts or so.
December 20 - 4chan changes its board software from modified GazouBBS modified 2chan code to Futallaby, created by 1chan's thatdog. Censored Vagina announces that the torrent tracker will return shortly, albeit it in a considerably smaller form, with a maximum of 40 torrents. He succeeds. February 14 - After GoDaddy suspends the 4chan. Thus, 4chan died for the third time. The links on 4chan are reflected to link to 4chan. March 1 - moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay and that more donations will be required to pay it or 4chan will die.
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