>> 21/01/23(Sat)2:29:22am No. 88 >>87 It depicts the story of what happened in August 2001, when 2channel (known today as 5channel) became larger than the software and hardware could handle, and ultimately could no longer remain online At some point during the downtime - and in the face of the site's seemingly-inevitable doom - a temporary refuge was made on www.2chan.net. The guys from 2channel's UNIX board would help troubleshoot the issues, optimize the code, and miraculously managed to bring 2channel back to life (this is where the flash's story ends) Former refuge site 2chan.net quickly became its own community known as Futaba Channel. It was similar to 2channel in many ways, but with some key difference - the most major of which was the ability to attach images to posts. And thus, the "imageboard" as we know it today was born! Jump ahead to 2003, and there was something of a golden age on Futaba's Nijiura board, leading to all kinds of characters and funny stories around them taking off (Waha, Yaranaika, OS-tans, etc.) Throughout 2003, Westerners from Something Awful's relatively new "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" board (more commonly known as ADTRW - this is where everything anime/Japan-related on SA was relegated) became fascinated with Futaba's Nijiura board and its culture, and would frequently share links and images from Futaba between themselves On October 1st 2003, moot - a relatively unknown user from ADTRW and regular of ADTRW-derived IRC channel #raspberryheaven (named after Azumanga Daioh's ED song - many ADTRW users were infatuated with the show) - opened an English version of Futaba on www.4chan.net, which used a hacked-together translated version of Futaba's publicly-available source code It immediately led to a strange but fascinating (and often hilarious) mix of SA/ADTRW culture and Futaba culture being formed, largely centered around the /b/ board. 4chan rapidly grew in popularity from there, to the point where they had their own extended downtime / "death" in mid-2004 - and the rest, as they say, is history. As the years rolled by, and as different generations of users came and went, 4chan's culture would change significantly, and many would agree that it was for the worse In late 2019, an individual known as LOLico made the decision to turn a small learning project of his named Heyuri into a Futaba-style imageboard. One of the initial intentions of Heyuri as an imageboard was to have it be something of a return to the magical primordial soup of Futaba/Japanese culture, SA/ADTRW culture, and general early-2000s internet culture that made early 4chan so entertaining, creative, and hilarious back in its formative years So yeah - in a roundabout way, it really is thanks to the server issues that 2channel was facing back in 2001 that Heyuri (and all Futaba-style imageboards) exists today!