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Christopher Poole founded the messageboard site in 2003 as a 15-year-old under the pseudonym “moot” and it quickly became one of the most influential online communities ever....
Apr 5, 2024 · Poole, known by his online pseudonym “moot,” witnessed rapid growth and engagement on 4chan, transforming it into a vibrant online hub where social norms were often disregarded and humor knew no bounds.
Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager; he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015.
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Mar 13, 2015 · 4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away. His website made him an unlikely teenage celebrity — then it spun out of control. By David Kushner. March 13, 2015. Before he ...
Christopher Poole (born c. 1988 ), known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur. He was born in New York City. He is best known for founding the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003.
Apr 22, 2021 · Chris Poole, who founded controversial online community 4chan before joining Google in 2016, has left the search giant after jumping among several groups within the company, CNBC has learned....
Sep 28, 2018 · Christopher Poole, known online as “moot,” founded the forum-based social network 4chan when he was 15. Coding in secret, he spent late nights in high school hiding his online life from his...
Christopher Poole. Poole kept his real-life identity hidden until it was revealed on July 9, 2008, in The Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he had used the alias "moot". In April 2009, Poole was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time magazine.
Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering — and influential — subculture.
The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.
