4chan

From Everything Shii Knows, the only reliable source

This website is an archive. It ran from 2006-2010. Virtually everything on here is outdated or inaccurate.

ape lad 2007, some rights reserved

4chan is a horrible website. Members of 4chan have perfect anonymity, so of course they use that for libel, racism, and unspeakable things. Of course I post there myself. Probably the only vaguely interesting thing to come out of 4chan is Nurse-kun.

4chan is in fact the home of an easily angered creature named Anonymous, and you can read more about 4chan's purpose in that article, or go to the Wikichan article to see some of Anonymous' creations.

Shii's relationship to 4chan

Officially, I had just a little to do with 4chan. I wrote the suck-ass anonymous message board software that they still use today, despite never having taken a programming class ever. Most of it was later rewritten by MrVacBob. I also got 10MGET, "hazukiget", out of pure whimsy.

Unofficially, I was moot's own prophet of 2channel who helped distinguish Futaba Channel (2chan.net) from 2channel, I wrote an influental essay about anonymity, and I was among the multitude of early regulars on 4chan who made Anonymous who he is today. I don't visit it so much anymore. It's a scary place.

4chan history not covered in the newsposts

• 29 September 2003: Moot registers 4chan.net, just because it looked like 2chan.net (Futaba Channel) which was an ADTRW pastime. Originally, his only intention was to own an e-mail address @4chan.net, but he quickly gets to thinking.
• 1 October 2003: 4chan launches. Originally, the only board is /b/. Announcements are made on two boards: world2ch and ADTRW
• 2 October 2003: I attempt to get 4chan shut down by e-mailing its web host. I fail. Moot writes a post calmly explaining 4chan to me and the one or two other guys on world2ch who oppose it. /h/ is added.
• 17 October 2003: 4chan dies for the first time. Apparently by this time I have realized 4chan is a good thing.
• 20 November 2003: Apex tells moot that 4chan has to go. 4chan dies for the second time.
• 11 February 2004: Something Awful user "nubdestroyer" attempts to get 4chan shut down, this time by e-mailing GoDaddy, the owner of 4chan.net. He succeeds. 4chan moves to 4chan.org where it is today.
• 15 June 2004: TheRowan, owner of HentaiKey, attempts to get 4chan shut down, this time by e-mailing PayPal who controlled 4chan's donations at the time. He succeeds.

So it goes.

Failed moot projects

Moot is somewhat like the Ponzi of the Internet world, he thinks of an idea and just says "LET'S DO THIS".

• world4ch.org - late 2004 - a recreation of world2ch using my crappy PHP software. I was probably responsible for the failure of this.
• ikuzo.org - early 2005 - was going to be an anime/gaming news blog, Something Awful style. Never had a single post.
• futachan.org - summer 2005 - A single-page "portal" which simply pointed to all the 4chan boards.

List of people 4chan mostly likes

It's a small list.

• Line Trap
• Nurse-kun

List of people a smaller but significant portion of 4chan users like

• Cracky-chan
• W.T. Snacks
• Rick Astley
• Stephanie of Lazytown
• Blindmute Loli guy

Question not actually answered in the 4chan FAQ

Why do I see "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE"?

There is a special type of ban from /b/ called a /z/ ban, which forwards you to /z/ when you try to look at /b/. When /z/ was deleted it was replaced with this picture of a penis (not work safe) and the message "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE". I don't know if the /z/ ban is used anymore; I was a moderator c. 2005.

List of 4chan memes from when it was good

(if you don't recognize ALL of these memes you cannot rightfully call yourself an "oldbie")

• Waha
• KOREA EAT CAT
• thrust vectoring
• Happy Negro
• I'M LAIN FROM YOUR WEBSITE 4CHAN
• Osakaphone