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03/21/2017 - 10h48

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1. BORN FROM SOMETHING AWFUL

Around 2005 or so a strange link started displaying up in my old webcomic's referral logs. This modern site I didn't understand. It was a bulletin board, but its system of navigation was opaque. Counter intuitively, you had to hit "reply" to read a thread. Moreover, the content was bizarre nonsense.

The site, if you hadn't guessed, was 4chan.org. It was an offshoot of a different message board which I also knew from my referral logs, "Something Awful", at the time, an online community of a few hundred nerds who liked comics, video games, and well, nerds things. But unlike boards with similar content, Something Awful skewed toward dark jokes. I had an account at Something Awful, which I used sometimes to post in threads about my comic.

4chan had been created by a 15 year old Something Awful user named Christopher Poole (whose 4chan mod name was "m00t"). Poole had adapted a type of Japanese bulletin board software which was difficult to understand at first, but once learned, was far more fun to send in than the traditional American format used

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