No.344[Last 50 Posts]
I have been saving images OF and from 4chan since 2004ish.
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I love all these old pictures, with forgotten camwhores and Snacks.
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Purveyor of GETS
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History won't remember Wheeker.
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It never changed, just got faster.
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I think screencaps of /z/ are the most precious of all.
No.352
And things were dumb.
Also, it's kind of marvelful how few boards there were
No.353
I like the posts that didn't make it, maybe a little more.
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Burn on Snacks?
No.355
>WHERE IS SARAH CONNOR didn't last, as a meme
No.356
Never did figure out that x-factor
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Look at these silly newfags. Don't they know his name is Grinman?
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How come Zoe Quinn use to be a funny guy?
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Breadposters ruined 4chan.
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Jokes that mean nothing in 2015
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Are there even wordfilters?
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Thanks for sharing OP. Saved
No.369
Bridging the gap from threads to other stuff, here's other stuff made to look like a thread!
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>tfw we can never go back
>tfw I came to 4chan in 2008 and I never got to experience /b/ when it was fledgling
Nice relics OP. I'll always treasure them.
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Selections from my "4chan-centric" folder, which is different from my "Threads" folder because this is stuff that was made specifically about 4chan by people on 4chan.
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>Getting into the Cockmongler-y stuff
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The death of this attitude is what ruined everything on the internet.
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>>375Fucked up thing was shortly before the purge I was actually considering buying a 4Chan pass.
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Holy shit. I'm having to come to grips with the fact that I've LOST AN IMAGE. This image was the OP in one of the earliest GET threads. I don't remember which post number was GOT. Something exceptionally low, like 1000, but I guess I don't have a cap of that thread, but I do have the pictures from it.
Fuck, without context, this precious relic appears completely pointless.
Big ups to whoever can get that cap
No.379
This is a meme I will admit I had forgotten. That the memes cannot go on because their are forever tainted by association.
Now it's a thing again.
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>>378Shit nigger what are you doing ,well what board was it on? This is starting to feel like relic hunting in necromunda. I haven;t touched that shit in years. Whats even more irksome is that 40k and good content in general was posted on /b/ prior to all the specialty boards. I'll start with ED , too bad lurkmore wiki is kill.
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>Skip over a bunch of Cracky-Chan stuff because I wanted to upload them in bulk, but that feature seems to not be working 4me.
Time for a history lesson, legit style.
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>>382Fug ED doesn't have anything before December 2008
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>>381It was /b/, I'm almost certain, and the text was PROBABLY "internet internet lol" and not the "lol internet," because that one is posted here
>>347>>382Here's the lesson. The world harbl does not mean "penis." Or didn't, originally.
The origins are rooted in one of 4chan's first raids, in which white american kids flooded into BarGiko, a japanese chat thing where everyone is ascii cats.
While harassing Asians, (some report that it was Soviet Russia, using the name) Happy American, first used the term to confound nips, who are always eager to learn a new English word. Since it was just junk slapped out from a keyboard, he tried to make it sound deeper than it was. He was trolling them.
People ran with it, and the refrain "it means everything and nothing at the same time" stuck for a while. Then later people just melted it down into harbl = penis. Which was a real shame, if you ask me.
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I'm not going to dwell on this, as "Invasions" is its own folder and I want to go back to the "4chan centric" folder, though in reality that just kinda shakes down to "memes that didn't get their own folders," for the most part.
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>>384>>385Thanks for the history lesson , anon.
No.387
I really wish I could post multiple images at once. Obviously I'm cool just doing it the old way because this is the 4chan thread.
4orz was coming. Anyone remember?
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>>387The actual image posted by Zoe Quinn in the sticky.
4orz was a new server.
No.389
No idea who these people are, lulz.
Yeah, pictures (or supposed pictures) of the staff wound up in this folder, though THREE DIFFERENT iterations of Zoe Quinn of their own folders.
No.390
Truly ancient documents, here.
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The hit list.
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>>390>4chan is officially deadOh Lawdy , if only they knew how bad it would get.
>>392>>391What are those counts of?
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The question is now, did you forget?
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Here's the "mysterious benefactor" who if I run across it, actually appears in some "group shots" with Zoe Quinn at cons. Not going to hunt that down, just now.
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Huh, didn't realize the full-sized image was part of this screencap. Oh well. Enjoy the conspiracy.
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>>395I knew Zoe Quinn and snacks used to ban each other
for shiggles but I never thought it would be that much.
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>Christopher Poole, I'm CIA.
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>>399I'm glad some orinalfags still hold onto this shit. 400 get
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How it's done.
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I wonder why these pictures of people dressed up like Habbo blackenstiens aren't in the Invasions folder.. Oh well, enjoy this I'm probably moving to another folder soon.
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>>403What year was this '06 or '07 ?
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Back when 4chan actively sought to raise awareness of 8chan.
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>>404The filename, a unix time stamp, translates to
>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:21:05 GMTI doubt I saved a huge clump of faggy raid pictures all at once, a year or two later, so it was probably September 2006.
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>>406Thanks i'm saving all of these.
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Time for some early forced memes because those made me laugh then.
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A few pictures from the AAIIIRRR folder first.
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That fucking cat was a forced meme, for people not of remembering.
Actually, I don't have like folders and folders of forced memes. I have memes, and looking over them, the only ones that I could consider forced are AIIRR, delayclose and what I called "Gay Tom," but other people called "THAT FUCKING CAT."
>>413March 2006 was a different time.
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I'm gonna try to blow through these because they're not informative or outside of the "still gets reposted" thing. But I want to get at least something from each of these folders, BUT THEN AGAIN, the best content was always when different memes were interacting, which would've been in the 4chan-centric folder or the "multi-meme drifting" folder. So I'm just get the highlights out there and move on.
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>>414Wasn't nu metal only just starting to decline then? I remember that shit being everywhere in 2004.
>>415No point in doing otherwise
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So it seems the old website/blog where the original Zoe Quinn pictures are from is finally dead.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~ejross/ No.418
Short breaks while I scour my HDD for that guy's blog, because I remember finding it again in February of last year and fucking SAVING EVERYTHING
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>Suddenly realize that the saved pages I am looking for are on a different computer.
THAT'S IT, THIS WHOLE THING IS POSTPONED UNTIL I CAN EXPERIENCE
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>>356>I drew thisobscure meme
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So the original /b/ was similar to /s4s/?
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>>425Less forced but otherwise yes exactly.
No.427
Did someone say "archive"? Well, you're going to love our latest creation (shameless plug incoming):
The BASC-Archiver:
https://github.com/bibanon/BASC-ArchiverDumps an entire imageboard, with full images, thumbnails, converted HTML (opens images locally) and raw JSON from the API.
Great for boards that aren't indexed by Fuuka, such as /b/.
No more "right-click save as" (which doesn't download full size images). Archive everything from a thread and view it in your browser later.
Currently only supports 4chan, but 420chan, 7chan, and 8chan support coming soon. GUI coming soon.
No.428
On that note, if you are interested in tales told on 4chan, the history of 4chan, or even have something to contribute: check out the Bibliotheca Anonoma.
For example, I bet you guys will be interested in the 2,200 image Information Library (designed to immerse newfags in 4chan history and culture):
https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/Information-Library No.429
>>428congrats on your modern day ED I guess
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>>429Oh don't worry. ED was resurrected a few years back:
http://encyclopediadramatica.esThough ED was never meant to be any kind of decent history record. It was originally meant to record livejournal arguments. Yes, seriously.
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>>431I lost a bit of respect for ED when they allowed the faggots from goregrish to hijack the ogrish article and make their own spam article.
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>>346this was 10 years ago…
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>>371There was a Torrents/Loli board? what the actual fuck?
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>>468>>431.se now. daniel brandt hijacked .es domain
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>>412I don't know, I find this instance pretty funny.
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Remember back in the day when people on /a/ actually liked Soul Eater? You know, before all the Narutards discovered it.
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Also remember when /a/'s drawfag threads were amazing and not all just waifu shit?
Classic Drawfag (1/?)
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(8/?)
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(9/?)
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(10/11)
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and I'll end this with arguably the best image that ever came out of those threads
(11/11)
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bump.
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>>349most important and historical screencaps of all time
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Today OP has been based.
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>>385Could you make a new thread for that please?
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>>498>tfw OP will never come back No.561
get rekt
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This is a great thread.
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10/10 thread
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>>347
>4/19/2004: #99984
>>346
>9/29/2004: #184568
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>1/16/2005: #571046
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>3/22/2005: #900000
something happened to 4chan in late 2004 that caused it to grow by a factor of 5 nearly overnight
No.606
the good times will return one day, right?
No.607
I love just how much chan culture stems from the roots of 4chan's early days. These people posting actively, they are, in a sense, our founding fathers.
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>>414
I still love that cat.
Even if it was the old banana equivalent
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>>605
That would be the collapse of SA
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Holy shit, a lot of the old stuff is cringy as fuck
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>>371
wait, there was a loli board, how/why is it gone? it seems like that would've solved a lot of /b/'s problem.s
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>>344
Fuck I love you OP. No homo.
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>>390
Did that have something to do with the domain being stolen? I feel like I half remember something like that happening.
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>>396
>mysterious benefactor
Waaaait what.
That photo is AGES old 4chan history. What does that have to do with ZQ now?
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>>614
Me too. I loved most of the old memes back then. But I also agree with >>619. /b/ was never good.
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>>605
>forgetting the Patriotic Niggers, Hackers on Steroids, Exploding Vans and the GNAA
I've been on the chanosphere for too long now.
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>>349
But it became less nerdy over time and more infested with normalfags.
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>>347
>mfw the post counter was finally reset
>mfw i have no face
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Man of Wax was /r/4chan's moderator, IlluminatedWax.
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>lolis kissing in a bathtub gif
>teh rei goatse background
Oh /z/, you were cancerous yet still kind of amazing.
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>>351
The same could be said for /l/.
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old browser windows get me rock hard
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>HELLO GAYFAGGOTINC
>56kers raped in the ass
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>>696
Sup OP. I have S3 Upload access at the Internet Archive, and I (as part of the Bibliotheca Anonoma) been trying to scrape together what little we have of 4chan's past, such as the penfifteen archive:
https://archive.org/details/studionyami-com_penfifteen-2012-03-05
Would you be willing to upload your 4chan folder as a batch? The Invasions folder is probably the most important one. Probably to Mega.co.nz, so we can all grab it from there.
We need to keep this data available for people to remember in the future: otherwise, it's like the place never existed.
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this. its sad how one of the old archived no longer exists.
Yoruba society and bibanon are all that's left for some of the old shit.
I wish i had been keeping web archives of old threads from when i started using IBs.
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>>699
Thanks. That's why we've been working over the past 5 years, and scraping together what's left.
Otherwise, only the outsiders (Tumblr, Reddit) and carpetbaggers (9gag, Gawker) could give their interpretation of 4chan's legacy.
It's the people who write the books/dig up evidence that control history.
So it's the job of _the people who were actually there_ to tell their own story.
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>>702
> carpetbaggers
well , reddit and tumblr are carpetbaggers as well.
Fortunately i have a few threads here and there but nothing too big
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>>703
Hey, it's all relative. At least Reddit and Tumblr are actual communities with their own culture: just another generation. I'm sure Something Awful, a parent site of the *chans, looks down on us the same way.
A "carpetbagger", in our vocabulary, is like Ebaum's World, 9Gag, the 2ch Matome blogs, and any other viral clickbait sites that purely milk memes for profit. It's a specific definition.
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>>703
If you have any threads or 4chan folders or any screencaps of any kind, post them to mega.co.nz. Everything helps.
Remember, you chose to save them out of everything else for a reason. It at least gives us a feel for the times.
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>>704
I'm using carpetbagger in the historical sense of "northerner coming to the south to exploit it".
And in the same way tumblrtards and redditors take their screen caps of *chans for thier leddit shekels and reblogs.
>>705
i'll try , i have too look through an old HDD. hopefully i post anything that already been logged.
No.707
Each time I've seen one of these personal archives, I've never been disappointed. Just one screencap tends to answer the a mystery of the past. (e.g. The attached Plainfield High School raid by /g/ https://trello.com/c/AbRVvyKa/54-plainfield-high-school-raid )
If possible, just toss in as much as you can find. Mega.co.nz can store up to 50GBs per account.
>>706
I think that reflects more about the compelling content the *chans tend to generate. Something about it exerts an unparalleled cultural influence.
At least these communities stand in awe (of it's infamy anyway), rather than stand to profit. Remember, unlike money, internet points are worthless: they are only ratings.
That's what sets these two kinds of observers apart.
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>>704
I'm using carpetbagger in the historical sense of "northerner coming to the south to exploit it".
And in the same way tumblrtards and redditors take their screen caps of *chans for thier leddit shekels and reblogs.
>>705
i'll try , i have too look through an old HDD. hopefully i post anything that hasn't already been logged.
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>>698
Most of the screen caps of old 4chan that I have have already been posted ITT. But maybe this Wayback Machine will be helpful.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031008225412/http://img.4chan.net/b/imgboard.htm
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>>710
A classic scrape. Yep, we do know about that well. In fact you may be interested in some of this:
An anon sent us an archive containing full images and a rare look at /b/'s front page:
http://tb.vyrd.net/net/res/46.html#82
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>>710
It would actually help us more if it was in a zipped folder. Otherwise we'd have to scrape this thread.
Also, No Screencap Left Behind, they really are uncommon.
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>>350
>IE
>with toolbars installed
>at 5PM, probably don't have a job
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anyone got any screenshots of /l/
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>>426
but being forced is the essence of /s4s/
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So ancient looking, technology has come a long way
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Here's one of the few screencaps i have.