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Apr 5, 2024 · The 4Chan Founder is Celebrated Even Today. TEDx Talks/YouTube. Upon his departure, Christopher Poole revealed that he had contemplated stepping down for quite some time, urging users to spend less time immersed in the online world and more time connecting with nature. He made a post in which he said, “The journey has been marked by highs and ...
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ReadWrite:What’s it like to be a founder and a coder at the same time? Chris Poole:Actually, I would say I don’t even fall into that bucket. I was probably a better programmer as a teenager than I am today. Which is kind of like the inverse of I guess what’s normally the case. I don’t count programming as one of my talents. So I spent a number of y...
RW: So why did you keep it on anonymous? Why didn’t you tell anyone? CP: It was a privacy and safety thing. I was young and wasn’t even 18. The site had some, even in the early stages, inappropriate content like the pornography would be posted to it and choice language. I just didn’t think it would be appropriate if others found out about it. Later...
RW:4chan has become a springboard for many memes. Did you ever imagine that it would be so influential? CP:No I didn’t imagine it. But I think that it makes sense [because] the two things that really define 4chan are its anonymity and the ephemerality of its content. So the anonymity I’ve advocated in the past for allowing people to share using a p...
RW:Let’s touch again on the anonymous thing. You’ve been a large proponent of maintaining anonymity online, and even the hacker group Anonymous was formed on 4chan. Is there a message that you want to give people regarding Internet privacy, especially now with the NSA and big Internet companies coming under fire for user privacy? CP:Yeah, I’ve alwa...
In an interview with The Verge in 2015, Poole explained where his head was at after selling 4chan. “I don’t really have any plans. A friend of mine has a kind of mantra, “one life change at ...
Sep 24, 2015 · Earlier this year, Chris Poole announced he was walking away from the thing he created that endowed him with all these titles: 4chan, the free-wheeling online community with a scurrilous reputation.
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Mar 19, 2010 · By Nick Bilton. March 19, 2010 4:13 pm. Comment. Nick Bilton/The New York Times Christopher Poole, known online as “Moot,” is the creator of the message board 4Chan. In 2003, while still in...
Sep 3, 2014 · Meet Christopher Poole, the mysterious founder of 4Chan. By Thomas Johnson. September 3, 2014 at 1:01 p.m. EDT. Hundreds of racy pictures of big-name celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence...
Mar 13, 2015 · A t 11 a.m. on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student in...
