Anonymous imageboard culture; template for political memes and trolling.
4chan imageboard launched
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Sources
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4chan. 4chan. (2003). Earliest surviving Wayback capture of the site, 22 November 2003, showing the original anime-focused board list. No capture exists from the 1 October 2003 launch itself.
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Stryker, C. (2011). Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web. Overlook Press. Book-length history of the site's founding by Christopher Poole in October 2003 and of its Futaba Channel antecedents.
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Phillips, W. (2015). This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture. MIT Press. Scholarly treatment of 4chan's anonymous posting norms and their diffusion into wider online culture.
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October 1, 2003
4chan imageboard launched
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