Later, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard. The English speakers there are members of ADTRW, and they are also familiar with Futaba and visit it as a pasttime. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time.

3 March 2003 - The first English language channel is created: world2ch, made by RIR6, a 16 year old Japanese user.

The site supports images and develops a unique culture all its own, growing out of the seed culture brought by the 2channelers. Futaba invents a board called /b/ for random content.

August, 30, 2001 - 2channel is in danger of dying, so a backup forum is created, called Futaba or 2chan (two-leaves).

April/May 2001 - Lowtax creates the ADTRW (Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse) board on Something Awful.

Meanwhile, Lowtax creates Something Awful. A man named Hiroyuki Nishimura sees all this and creates Ni Channeru (2channel), the Second Channel, using code based on the first, with enough servers this time to handle the exponential growth.

1999 - The administrator of the first channel closes the site due to vandalism, before that, he makes a plea for its users to make more sites like Amezou.It starts off as a bunch of links to alternative BBSes for wayward Ayashii Worlders, but soon becomes its own forum and introduces a new style of threaded message board, dependent on bumping and saging. They get their replacement with Amezou, the First Channel, run by Amezou-shi.

After the owner receives personal threats over the server issues, he shuts the site down. 1998 - Ayashii World doesn't have good servers, and it keeps crashing.Ayashii World functions as the hubsite of Nanashi World in a similar way to how 4chan would later function as the hubsite of Anonymous. Many similar BBSes are formed, collectively called Nanashi Warudo (Nameless World), they develop a culture based on memes. Warez and cp are posted, and there is a “gesu” (scum) board where a group of the same name discussed and conducted website hackings and invasions. 1996 - A man named Masayuki Shiba creates a BBS called Ayashii Warudo (Strange/Suspicious World).1988 - The dawn of an era: Christopher 'moot' Poole is born in New York City, New York.If you desire to make your page invisible on google, message the website owner and ask him to make a robots.txt.Add more primary/secondary sources, from thread screencaps to news reports, or even archived websites on.Link to the 4chan News page or 4chan Blog for any site-wide structural changes.

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