Origin of all text and imageboards can be pinpointed to one specific person and no it's not Nishimura Hiroyuki.>1995 Japan, Sarin Gas attack in Subway Station happens>Some time later, an unknown Japanese programmer releases an edgy game about the sarin attack that was the biggest terrorist attack in the country in the same year>Tons of backlash at the time, which popularizes the game inevitably>A man named Shiba Masayuki tries to upload this game to some website>He gets scolded for it and is told to remove the game>Later he decides to create his own website to upload the game and discuss it>His websites continuously get deleted but he manages to cultivate an edgy underground subculture>He creates Ayashii Warudo in 1996 (Strange World), the first if not one of the first textboards ever. The topics are mostly edgy stuff similar to old /b/>In 1998 Shiba Masayuki decides to delete his own website because his servers kept crashing and received death threats over it>People from Ayashii Warudo migrated to a website called Amezou, which was similar to Ayashii Warudo, but was created after it>If I get it right, Amezou faced the same problems as Ayashii Warudo did and servers got bloated. Also Amezou faced a lot of vandalism from Ayashii Warudo users and its admin also received some threats as Shiba did.>Nishimura Hiroyuki then decides to create 2channel, to ease the traffic. The name both refers to a tv channel and to mean it's the second Amezou>Years later>Moot decides to copy the Futaba Channel (2channel clone) because anime threads are banned on Something Awful forum in the year 2003Sources:https://archive.md/2018.06.07-203906/http://f16.aaacafe.ne.jp/~stwalker/#selection-21.100-21.335 (in Japanese)https://en.namu.wiki/w/5ch (in broken/machine translated English)https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/10/26/programmer-shocks-internet-with-subway-nerve-gas-game/
>>204732931Where are these great Japanese men now?
>>204733147Couldn't find Shiba and Amezou but Nishimura is still around
>>204732931I am still amazed SA is still active and alive after all these years
>>204733272Had it not been for the Japanese and weebs forums like that would be as popular as 4chan.
>>204733427nah SA requires a one time 10$ payment to create an account and post it would filter people
>>204733719I mean forums like that. We would have to register and log in every time we wanted to post. 4chan is taken for granted but it's just Japanese culture that was born in 90s.
