Talk:4chan/History

The history of [s4s] has been moved to its own separate page; this will happen to every board soon. The same users having a bitch fit about "stickies we dont give a fuck about" keep adding melodramatic board drama that passes in a day to the article, and said this is the reason "/jp/ died", even though the thing about imageboards is, boards can always bounce back from AIDS if enough good threads are made to set an example. Either way, if you find something interesting and historic enough to add it to "the history of /jp/" article, go right ahead.

--Grbr (talk) 12:22, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

User: Groid raper 1488 was vandalizing this page in mid February, changing the "thousands of anons" line to "thousands of niggers".

--Grbr (talk) 12:06, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The main reason why /pw/ had the name change was due to the Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund buying WWE.

As of May 2023, this has only been done for /mlp/ and [s4s], this really should be done for all of them, and we should endeavor even more forms of differentiation to make the history easier to navigate by topic. Rexma (talk) 07:51, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

I completely agree. Would making finding stuff way easier than just doing CTRL-F for the board you want to look up on the timeline. An infobox template for board info like the date of creation, bump limit, archive coverage etc. would be nice too. Maggot (talk) 01:54, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

history of shitposting with ads

the article currently implies ad shitposting on /vp/ started with ads in october 2019, but it actually started almost a decade earlier; https://imgur.com/a/iA4nRVZ there were several threads bitching about it, 22594427 is one example of several. this might've had a limited influence in the lasting consciousness because 4chan mods used to do their job and were deleting the threads pretty quickly – i.e. "you had to be there" – but the board was shit for the better part of a few days. still, it's newfag revionism to mark 2019 as the start of it

Suggested Additions

30 Sep 2023 - /his/ gets the first sticky since the board's creation, and is transported to the year 1437 AD/CE >>>/his/15678043

07 Oct 2023 - /his/ gets a follow-up sticky, and is transported to the year 1692 AD/CE >>>/his/15708907

22 Jan 2024 - For years, logposters on /b/ have tried to force the meme "heaven has gained an angle" by falsely claiming that Corey Harrison, a cast member of the History TV series Pawn Stars, has died. This takes an ironic turn when his brother Adam Harrison suddenly dies of a drug overdose. Mods make a sticky and autoplay the instrumental to the Pawn Stars theme in the catalog for a couple of hours. The sticky is laughably slow and mostly consists of unawares wondering what is going on and logposters claiming victory.

Unknown, ~Summer (Saturday) 2024 - On /b/ Caturday starts early and the thread manages to hit bump limit. The theme is changed on that Saturday to a cat. The Caturday thread that day sages.

What should the style format for the hyperlinking of threads be like?

Should it be archive.ph, the original URL, or any archive URL? Or just smash them all together. The point I'm getting at is to prevent losing anything forever. Billside (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn't use archive.ph because it shortens the URL. When you use the original link, even when the thread inevitably 404s the post number ID is still present in the URL, which means the post could be recovered (such as by replacing the host boards.4chan.org with desuarchive.org, for example). If archive.ph shuts down permanently (though it's been going strong so far), we wouldn't even know what thread you linked. Do make backups on archive.ph or ghostarchive if you have the time, but just make sure the URL which you choose for reference contains the post number.

Exception: I think it's acceptable if formatted like this (though it lacks the board name): (clicked the No. button on the post to add #p186805457 to the url)

• https://archive.ph/5f2mv#p186805457

--Censuro (talk) 22:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh, turns out you click the Share button to get an unshortened link from archive.ph:

• https://archive.ph/2023.06.27-033246/https://boards.4channel.org/tv/thread/186805209

--Censuro (talk) 13:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

How can we make it possible to link to specific dates?

It's possible to link to a year (#2024), but since dates are not headings, they do not have an anchor to link to. A lot of value for this article could be locked behind the ability to easily reference dates. Entries in different dates are often independent.

Is there some way we can make each date have an anchor, without making the page cluttered/difficult to edit? (maybe a standard in some wikis that I don't know about) --Censuro (talk) 21:32, 6 September 2024 (UTC)