2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 9, 2004 @06:26PM from the with-deep-sea-vent-worms dept.

News for nerds writes "This NY times article (reg blah blah) sheds the light on Japan's largest Internet bulletin board - 2ch. About 5.4 million people come to this "Channel 2" each month, many of them several times a day (just like you nerds making beowulf cluster of alphabets all the day!). Founded in 1999, "ni-channeru," as it is called there, has become part of Japan's everyday culture as no other Web site has. While you can also find useful info such as dinner recipes there, it's almost like Battle Royale came into life as a web site, filled with verbal and physical violence backed by pseudo anonymity."

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What, why? by Jade+E.+2 · 2004-05-09 18:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

Why the hell would that many people go to a website that's nothing but a bunch of question marks? (The humorless need not reply.)
Re:4chan.org by zalas · 2004-05-09 18:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

4chan is mainly an image board, and yes a lot of the images are pornographic in nature. 2chan is mostly text based, with some image boards scattered here and there.
Reg Free Link by rffmna · 2004-05-09 18:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/international/as ia/09toky.html?ex=1084680000&en=2d529ed7f6c158a9&e i=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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