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4chan. 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, anime, fitness, politics, and sports, among others.
- Christopher Poole
Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), also known online as moot,...
- Imageboard
An English-language imageboard based on cannabis culture...
- 8Chan
New Zealand ISPs Spark, One NZ, and 2degrees, with a near...
- Hiroyuki Nishimura
Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born 16...
- Christopher Poole
4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images. Sites such as these are called imageboards. It was started in 2003 by "moot" also known as Christopher Poole, who was 15 years old at the time.
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- Hiroyuki Nishimura
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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...
Nov 8, 2014 · SAN FRANCISCO — So, what exactly is 4Chan? 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...
Anonymous is also often associated with image boards such as 4chan and protests such as the Occupy Movement. Some people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks in countries including the U.S., UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey.
Will 4chan still be seen as an innovator under new owner? 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.
