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narwhal@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

4chan just celebrated its 20th birthday.

4chan.org

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4chan just celebrated its 20th birthday.

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narwhal@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • ram@bookwormstory.social
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    Oop, sounds like a mass exodus is coming. 4chan’s now too old for its userbase.

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      I think that happened 8 years ago or so

      • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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        It looks like a 12 year old site but it’s actually 20, so it’s all good.

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      Why do you think they created 8chan?

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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    Yet it still acts like a pissy little 8yo.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    Shame it got overrun by racist chuds.

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      … Basically the day it was created.

    • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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      Acting like a tool was pretty well an inevitable when you have a platform that doesn’t even have a username much less any kind of account attached to anything. People are bad enough behind a screen on Facebook and such, strip away any form of tie to real life accountability and you end up with 4chan. Kind of a fascinating place in that unchained chaos way though.

    • artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social
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      Gotta learn to extract the good from the bad. It’s always worked that way.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        Yeah but it only got worse

        • pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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          /b/ took a big shit in summer 2007 and hasn’t been anywhere near as good since then, and it wasn’t even good before then. The rest of the site, especially the smaller SFW boards, has decent content if you know where to look. /po/ is one of the best places online for papercrafting and origami, for example

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            /an/ is one of my favorite places online because it’s just a bunch of stoners and zoologists arguing about cave snails and shit.

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            I first discovered /b/ in '09 so I can’t attest to anything prior, but it always met my expectations of what a free as in freedom social space would be like. It won’t be the idealistic pretty picture most people wish it was. It will be a mirror reflection of life and humanity. The good the bad the ugly no more no less. Don’t like what you see in the mirror? Take it up with the big man upstairs I guess.

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            I liked their tabletop RPG forum, there were fun posts there. Even /b/ had its moments: I remember one thread where everybody had superpowers and my guy turned everybody into a park bench. Another guy could heat up hotdogs with his hands. At the end of the story pretty much everyone somehow got turned into a park bench. Can’t remember the specifics now, I was kinda drunk.

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            /b/‘s downfall basically toxified the rest of the other boards over time. /fit/ for example is a shadow of the pre zyzz days. Although I can’t say I miss brapp posting. I do miss the avg Korean gf posting though

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        Yeah papercraft & origami was a great spot for a while.

      • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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        And just hope the feds never look at your browser cache

        • artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social
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          Can’t let fear control you

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          I don’t live in a federal state so I’m golden

      • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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        It got worse over time IMO

  • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    And nothing has changed in 20 years…

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The “ironic” part of 4chan’s nazism peeled away like an old dirty sticker over time.

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      Then you think about how long ago it was we did all those dl ratios and auto bots promoting sites on UUNET, DALNET or others…

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    The only positive thing I got out of that place was some great albums from /mu/, but even there the toxicity was so incredibly rampant. I wouldn’t shed a tear to see the whole site nuked.

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      /tg/ maintains the best pirated TTRPG repositories as far as I’m aware, so there are at least two good things.

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    4chan feels like it’s been around forever, wow, I actually used the Internet before 4chan was a thing. That’s kind of wild to think about.

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    tfw I still don’t have an avg Korean gf 10 years later

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    What ever happened to Moot, I wonder.

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    Fox News for millennials.

    Did Rupert Murdoch or any WASPy oil oligarch ever fund 4chan by any chance?

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    Removed by mod

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