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Wall Street Journal on 4chan and Christopher Poole

online.wsj.com — "Over the last few years, 4chan.org has become one of the most talked-about sites when it comes to launching new memes. […] It was started by Christopher Poole in his Long Island bedroom in 2003 when he was 15 years old. Since then it has grown to more than 3 million monthly users, according to Mr. Poole."

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  • CCunitz, on 07/10/2008, -0/+23I honestly never thought I'd see the day the Wall Street Journal would write the word "mudkips"......Armageddon is clearly approaching.
  • Tribis, on 07/10/2008, -1/+18I'm waiting for the inevitable digg and 4chan merger announcement.
  • SEANWOOKIE, on 07/10/2008, -3/+14Chris Poole = CP
  • akkibaba, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10Poole's closed, gentlemen.
  • s0m31john, on 07/10/2008, -1/+8/digg/
  • regression, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6So, I herd u liek mudkipz?
  • dragongrrl, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5can has monetization?

    oh noes! you stoled my monetization!
  • meruru, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3"'It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful,' says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society."
    Highly useful, that made me laugh
  • rezist, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3David?
  • ImBlackYall, on 07/10/2008, -2/+4If only they'd touched more on /b/.
    With screen-shots.

  • BronzeDragon06, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2This is the funniest thing I have ever read. I would not call 4chan modest, and it is defiantly not like Craigslist.
  • citirae, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2Indeed.
  • AManWithNoName, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2FTA: ""LOLcats," humorous images of cats with loud text beneath them in a fake language called "LOLspeak"..."

    LOUD text? So, what, do you hear them typing on the other side of the internet or something?
  • GuertyMof, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2/b/ is the cancer that's killing digg and digg is the cancer that's killing /b/

    These worlds REALLY do need to be seperate.
  • Outsanity, on 07/10/2008, -2/+3I guess an ugly ***** like that would make that site
  • s810, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1sorry, too busy merging with reddit and twitter
  • Iluvator, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Quaint?
    Modest?
    Like Craigslist?

    I'd go with "The clogged drain of the internet" or "A place so terrible that it's /best/ products are lolcats and Rickrolls."
  • citirae, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2I suspect this entire article is BS. Moot revealing his identity is unlikely, he'd get IRL trolled way too quickly.
  • drspanklebum, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1*****. evrywhar
  • GuertyMof, on 07/14/2008, -1/+1You get b& and v& for posting CP
  • mysterychan, on 07/12/2008, -0/+0Yes the article was hillarious, it reminded me of an old school copy pasta or something. Also I have to say that when I started going to 4chan back in the day I would have laughed at some one if they told me that years from then 4chan would be in Time and WSJ. At least in the Time article they seem to actually have a clue about it.
  • pawluk44, on 07/09/2009, -1/+0Could not agree more.
  • Absinthminded64, on 07/10/2008, -6/+1Have a seat right over there. Just have a seat right there.

    This very related episode of SP is awesome if you've never seen it.

    Episode 1108
    Le Petit Tourette

    http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/107318

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