Search results
Nov 8, 2014 · 4chan’s roots date back to a pre-Facebook age of the Internet, where anonymity ruled and rules were few to come by. Hackers deposited nude celebrity photos on the site over the summer.
- 4chan
- Canvas
- Post-4Chan
In April 2009, Poole was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time. On September 12, 2009, Poole gave a talk on why 4chan has a reputation as a "Meme Factory" at the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna, Austria, which was part of the Paraflows 09 festival, themed Urban Hacking. In this talk, Poole mainly...
In 2010, Poole was reported to have raised $625,000 to create a new online enterprise, Canvas. The website opened on January 31, 2011, and featured digitally modified images uploaded by users who are required to self-identify using Facebook Connect.The enterprise ran until January 2014 when Poole announced that Canvas, and its DrawQuest feature, wo...
In January 2015, Poole announced that he would be stepping down as the 4chan administrator. On January 23, he hosted a final Q&A with site users using the /qa/ board and YouTube to livestream. This marked the beginning of his "retirement" from being an administrator and owner of the website after eleven and a half years. He began a process of turni...
The raid was separated in multiple teams: The first team, the Alpha Team, spammed "horrifying" images of child pornography, gore, furries and scat on 9gag's site, followed by fake accounts made by 4chan, Anonymous, Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk voting the spam up, effectively overloading the servers.
Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born 16 November 1976) is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan.
- hiroyuki (ひろゆき)
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an "anarchic", digitized "global brain" or "hivemind".
- c. 2003
What happened to moot? The 4chan founder left the site in 2015 after it was sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the man whose 2channel message board in Japan had inspired 4chan’s creation in North...
4chan, the anarchic website dubbed "the id of the Internet," looks set to stay true to its ethos under its new owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, says the co-chief executive at TMW Unlimited. by Chris Pearce.
