Jan 212009
If you’ve never been to 4chan, beware. It’s the fount all the inside jokes and Internet memes that have come out in the past few years. You can thank them for Rickrolling, for LOLcats, for Anonymous vs. Scientology.
It’s also exceedingly foul, and pornographic, and deliberately offensive, especially their “random” channel, or /b/ as it’s known.
It takes the format of a bulletin board, adds image posting, and wipes the slate clean if any post doesn’t attract enough attention. It is a distilled juvenile popularity contest.
And it’s also hilarious. The latest:
(found at Boing Boing Gadgets, but credit to Anonymous, obviously)
Grant Hamilton
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Dave