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2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Registration Free Link by karmatic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, I found an even better, faster way to do this. Drop me a line at my URL, and I'll tell you how to do it.

    No, I won't share it here.

  2. /. reduced to leeching stories from Channel 9??? by psykocrime · · Score: 1, Troll

    So much for the supposed anti-microsoft bias of Slashdot! This story appears to be taken straight from a Microsoft website.

    So I guess all the folks who think Slashdot is nothing but a bunch of M$ hating Linux fan-boys can go back in the closet now. Sadly, only to be replaced by a new crew crowing about how /. has sold out to the Evil Empire...

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  3. Been There, Done That... by daitengu · · Score: 1, Troll

    About 10 years ago or so, this would have been called FidoNet" FidoNet is now still alive, but is mostly just one large Flame War. It's a shame that they're using the web for this, as Zone 6 (Asia) is down to about 20 some members.

  4. Load test by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Troll

    The server is still up after slashdot? they must use a beowulf cluster of bukake!

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