Online message board 4chan sold to Japanese Web culture pioneer
New owner Hiroyuki Nishimura founded 2channel, the website that inspired creation of 4chan
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IF the Internet is the Wild West, you could call 4chan "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Founded in 2003 by Christopher Poole, the anonymous message board 4chan has been home to a veritable smorgasbord of everything that the Web has to offer. With posts on the site lasting only a matter of days - or even hours - before they are deleted, 4chan has been described as the collective id of the Internet, home to hardcore pornography, hardcore cooking tips and everything in between.
Now Mr Poole is letting go of 4chan after more than a decade at …
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